Thread: Might as well start teaching kids about the Stork theory...

Sure, but when I was in highschool science I was taught that I can only taste sweet things on the tip of my tongue. I knew then, and I know now, that this is of course wrong and also not science. What is the difference? If you go back over your highschool text books you'll probably find a lot of other stuff in there that isn't real science (like "airplanes fly because of lift"). Why aren't you making a big stink about any of those things?

In some cases it's a massive oversimplification, but if it's bullshit like the areas of the tongue, then I do support it being removed. Making the education system more about concepts, and making it more accurate and well thought out is something I definitely support. Certainly I'm pretty critical of the education in my own country, and how much it's influenced by political correctness, but that's a topic for another time.

This thread isn't so much about the incompetence and ignorance of those responsible for determining what children need to be educated on - as much of a problem as that is - but that those outside a domain can wield the political power to force their ideas down people's throats in a completely inappropriate setting, and by cheating because they fail when doing it properly.