“Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.” ShouldSchoolPoliticalTaughtEvolutionEvidenceDnaFossilsControversy Author:Carl Zimmer
“Unfortunately, most people do not stop to feel their tiredness. Faced with the pressures of life, they believe that it is a matter of survival to go on as they have been. Feeling tired raises a deep fear that they may not be able to continue the struggle. Many find it difficult to say, ‘I can’t.’ As children, they were taught that where there’s a will, there’s a way. To say, ‘I can’t,’ is to admit failure, which is seen as evidence that they are unworthy of love.” PeopleWayFeelsBelieveMayChildrenHas BeensI CanMatterFeelingsAbleDifficultStruggleTaughtGoes OnSurvivalEvidencePressureRaisesTiredUnworthyTiredness Author:Alexander Lowen
“Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places, either as a matter of systematic area-by-area search or, as here, to treat a specific problem, is of indispensable importance in the maintenance of community health; a power that would be greatly hobbled by the blanket requirement of the safeguards necessary for a search of evidence of criminal acts.” MatterProblemWould BeCommunityTaughtEvidenceAreasTreatsImportanceCriminalsRequirementsIndispensableBlanketDwellingSystematicMaintenanceDwelling PlaceCommunity Health Author:Felix Frankfurter
“If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text without bothering to delve into its implications -- which in time will make them prey to propaganda and to assertions based on scanty evidence, or none.” IfsWayMeanChildrenReadingTaughtEvidenceBotherPropagandaDullBoresPreyImplicationsAssertionTedious Author:Joan Aiken
“I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.” TaughtEvidenceSpeciesAccumulationMutationGenetic Mutation Author:Lynn Margulis
“The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.” MenSoulMomentsWould BeReligionAsksHumilityTaughtHe ManEvidenceInfiniteInspiredDoctrineWanderImmortalityFallenShedFiniteAdorationContinuance Book:Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book) Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)
“Although it is easier to find information these days, it is easier than ever before to find misinformation, pseudo-facts, unsupported and fringe opinions, and the like. Children should be taught at an early age what constitutes evidence, how to detect biases or distortions in newspaper accounts, and that there exist hierarchies of information sources. In the medical field, for example, a controlled experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal is a better source than a blog by the Ginseng Growers Association, promoting the health benefits of their own product.” ShouldChildrenFactsAgeOpinionInformationExampleFieldsTaughtProductsSourceEasierBenefitsEvidenceAccountsMedicalNewspapersExperimentsThese DaysControlledAssociationPeersJournalHierarchyPromotingFringeBlogsDistortionMisinformationPseudoHealth Benefits Author:Daniel Levitin
“Those who promote the politically correct theory are favored with billions from government grants and neo-Marxist environmentalist largesse, and official recognition and award. Faked and tampered data and evidence has arisen in favor of the politically correct theory. Is not man-caused, catastrophic global warming now the only theory allowed to be taught in the West?” MenGovernmentTaughtTheoryEvidenceWestFavorsBillionsRecognitionDataOfficialsGlobal WarmingGrantsAwardsMarxistEnvironmentalistPolitically CorrectLargesse Author:Peter Ferrara