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NYT: Common Core and Moral Relativism -- (link)

Posted by Strongbad (aka Rambler14) Mar 18 '15, 03:58

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Fact: Something that is true about a subject and can be tested or proven. Opinion: What someone thinks, feels, or believes. (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

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It goes well beyond common core if he's blaming college students on it -- nm - spamlet Mar 18, 04:48 16
- But I think it has more to do with the moral relativism of the age and their parents than a school curriculum. -- nm - spamlet Mar 18, 04:49 15
  - Yes. College students are at the precise age of "question everything!" and it has ever been thus. -- nm - Reagen Mar 18, 05:39 1
    - And that. -- nm - znufrii Mar 18, 06:04
  - With a dose of "dumbing it down to explain to a second grader". Plenty of things we were taught in school didn't tell the whole story -- nm - Roger More Mar 18, 05:02
  - I agree. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 18, 04:57 11
    - And I'm glad it hits on a major pet peeve of mine. - Strongbad Mar 18, 05:07 10
      - No no no no. That's not right at all. There's no hierarchy for Theory to Fact. - Reagen Mar 18, 05:31 6
        
        Oh... so you're one of those people who believe in gravity? -- nm - Ender (3 Days till Puerto Rico) Mar 18, 06:44 1
        
        *watches you fling off into space* -- nm - Reagen Mar 18, 07:02
        
        I agree that laws must have a mathematical component to it. - Strongbad Mar 18, 05:52 1
        
        the word that science uses for how laypeople use "theory" is "hypothesis". -- nm - Reagen Mar 18, 05:54
        
        Theory to Law, I meant to say. - Reagen Mar 18, 05:34
        
        But that's just, like, your opinion, man. -- nm - znufrii Mar 18, 05:33
      - And the flip side of that - znufrii Mar 18, 05:09 2
        
        Agreed. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 18, 05:12
        
        In my ind the problem he describes is not that children are taught a false distinction between opinion and fact - znufrii Mar 18, 05:12

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