I completely agree that public schools too are terrible. In fact not just in theocratic countries like Pakistan but even in secular countries like India. So regulation is not the answer. The state should stick to making fair laws and strictly enforcing them.
I do not see any kind of extremism as a free speech issue. “Creation” is not extremism, it is just a religion’s idea of how this world came into existence. I don’t believe in it but I am not threatened by anyone who believes in it. If we start treating them as if they have committed a crime by believing in their religion or deny them their right to faith and worship, then there is a good chance that they will become violent and rebellious. For this and the reason that public schools that are regulated aren’t any better either, I suggest that states draw up a list of minimum dos and don’ts, let private players who are more efficient and dependent upon satisfaction of the parents for their survival to run schools, and stick to enforcing law and educating the public about their rights and how each school is doing, may be through independent rating.
The schools are not very good in either the public or private sector in these countries, but this has more to do with an overall lack of investment than anything else. Countries with well funded public education systems are all the better off. Regarding Pakistan, it spends very little on education, and at least its public schools teach secular subjects such as science whereas madrassas don’t, and are oriented mainly toward religious education. That’s not good for the country.
Although there are certainly many fundamentalists who don’t like it, educating people about evolution and science is going to go a long way toward convincing them about it. Allowing them to go to religious charters instead isn’t going to help the problem- it’s going to indoctrinate more kids and make the problem worse.
I also noticed you claimed that private education was more efficient, but it does not appear to be from the educational outcomes it produces. Public teachers are expected to be licensed, while charter school teachers are not required to be. This results in a lower quality of education at charter schools and is a reason for their lower test scores.
The schools are not very good in either the public or private sector in these countries, but this has more to do with an overall lack of investment than anything else. Countries with well funded public education systems are all the better off. Regarding Pakistan, it spends very little on education, and at least its public schools teach secular subjects such as science whereas madrassas don’t, and are oriented mainly toward religious education. That’s not good for the country.
One thing is for sure: life becomes a hell of a lot easier if you can put up a set scale of values and put everyone on the Procrustian bed to measure up to it. It would make economics a hell of a lot easier, and maybe ecometrics would actually mean something.
If this is the Brahmain like Progressive Paradise send me the rule book so I can learn the rules and fashions so I don’t get axed good citizen..
After that we can figure out the problems with people in Baharain
I don’t think for Pakistan, yet you can’t help yourself. You are just as fundamentalist, moralizing, and potentially destructive as the people you preach against.
Aaah and all the contraceptive aid to African countries to do something about AIDs and overpopulation is really just… destructive fundamentalism or whatever, right?
You have not even qualified a thing yet. No scenario, actualpast or present economic policy in effect or anything (and this is where Keynesian economics can actually get interesting).
All you are doing is throwing around Platonic words like: education, darwin, secularism, and fundamentalism as if they are to have much meaning unqualified. After that, all I see is a person trying to act in a particular fashion, that happens to be popular and rewarding in the world (Progressive) of social signaling.
In the world yo have put up, I isee static world in which people have to behave a certain way to be “correct” and there is no “robustness”, it’s like a very unsubtle “B version” of scientism
It’s a random opinion the way you are going about this thread. Either way, I don’t think I will be adressing you anymore as you seem more willing to provoke than engage in any actual intellectual conversation
I understand if you see that schools have the right to pursue abstinence-only education and watch half their students get pregnant by 15. Or event that they have the right to teach that the world was created in seven days by a bearded old guy in the clouds. But that’s where our views on religious charter schools differ. Seeya later.
You are right in the fact that you are a front line arch-fundamentalist cultural warrior who appeals to just as much authority, smoke, and mirrors as they do. Tell your priests at the temple of Harvard I said “hugs and Kisses” and your prophets - I mean science hobbyists and journalists to “chill out”. Enjoy our Jihad.
For future reference with discussions with other people, as I am done - or advice for other people reading your posts and why it is going to lead to an endless abyss of nothingness and intellectual masturbation:
You still haven’t made an argument. You have said nothing that is debatable. You are doing nothing but listing stuff that annoys you. It’s like the logic of Seinfeld or something.
You know what I hate, elevator music
And what’s the deal with glove boxes, it’s not like I put gloves in them.