X-Message-Number: 19189 From: "Mark Plus" <> Subject: Re: Constructivism Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 07:30:07 -0700 In Message #19186, Scott Badger writes: >BTW, the majority of these college students come to the program needing serious remediation in science and math. They don't know why we have seasons, why the mooon has phases, etc, etc, etc. Secular humanists tend to blame the spread of fundamentalism in part on an ignorance of science, but I think Americans' anti-intellecualism and indifference to book learning also tend to put an upper limit on fundamentalist ideological zealotry. The same students who need remediation in science and math would probably also flunk a test of basic literacy in their own nominal religious beliefs. Studying the Bible and other theological works is too much like school work to hold mass appeal. The people who do master this material may be respected, but they are also viewed as being akin to geeks. The decline of reading in general among people who are capable of reading has been called "aliteracy." E.g., link to, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A23370-2001May13 Mark Plus _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19189