Slow Schooling Chapter 16: Teaching History, Science, and Math
Important because of what they teach about the world and about God.
65 Sheets of Cardstock...
Thursday, August 9, 2007 02:54
...and 158 staples (minus a few dozen mishaps) later, we finally have our timeline on the wall. I’ve been wanting to do this for years, and I took the opportunity today to just do it while a video babysat my 3yo and dreams played upon my wee one’s naptime.
History, science, and math are blatant proclaimers of worldview. Depending on the foundation an instructor may attempt to construct, a child might learn that world history is millions of years old. Or that his ancestor was an ape. Or that history is measured in political and geographical upheavals, and that science is supposedly at odds with religion and mathematics is a tool of oppression (1). Truth is presented in many history books in the measure and flavors of whomever the publishing house wishes to market to, and science books speak of evolution as fact, even though the very essence of science is based on the repe…