What shall we tell the children? Social science - Matrix: mind map. Simple proper (scientific - without superstition) matrices for parents and parenting.
by Charles Williams
1. New Scientist. 23 June 2007. Reality Check. "To track down a theory of everything, we might have to accept that the universe only exists when we're looking at it"! www.newscientist.com "Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, of mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that isn't a human invention. The world has no existence whatsoever outside the human imagination..." 'Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance' Robert M. Pirsig.
2. Global Gullibility 'For Dawkins, religious gullibility is not only an illustration of, but may be a precursor to, a more global form of gullibility. As he said, if you can believe “something as daft as the transubstantiation [then] you can believe anything", and (witness the story of Doubting Thomas) these people are trained to see that as a virtue” (p. 141). In other words, training children to accept nonsensical religious notions may predispose them to accept all kinds of other nonsense with a similar blind trust.' http://www.stephen-greenspan.com/pdf/samplechapter.pdf Global Gullibility
2.1. Religious Education (RE) Dorset For You. SALED, NASACRE, SACRE. RE Search - Agreed Syllabus. http://luckyme0.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A18BF3FCC5E126A2!1249.entry "Children, I'll argue, have a human right not to have their minds crippled by exposure to other people's bad ideas - no matter who these other people are. Parents, correspondingly, have no god-given licence to enculturate their children in whatever ways they personally choose: no right to limit the horizons of their children's knowledge, to bring them up in an atmosphere of dogma and superstition, or to insist they follow the straight and narrow paths of their own faith. In short, children have a right not to have their minds addled by nonsense. And we as a society have a duty to protect them from it. So we should no more allow parents to teach their children to believe, for example, in the literal truth of the Bible, or that the planets rule their lives, than we should allow parents to knock their children's teeth out or lock them in a dungeon." 'What Shall We Tell The Children?' 'Amnesty Lecture' Oxford - Nicholas Humphrey. Reasons (2) 1) 'Becoming human is a process (Primate to Human / Human to Human Rights & Western Civilisation?) and not some event' Anon. 2) 'The Long Childhood' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34MtbXuL0Qs&feature=related Jacob Bronowski 'The Ascent of Man'.
3. By Jack of Kent - "For those wondering, if anyone working with children hears an allegation of abuse, it's the law to report it immediately (at least here and in the US, I don't know about other countries). ... "Even if the Pope doesn't end up in the dock, and even if the Vatican doesn't cancel the visit, I am optimistic that we shall raise public consciousness to the point where the British government will find it very awkward indeed to go ahead with the Pope's visit, let alone pay for it. ...<http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2010/04/shall-we-arrest-pope.html> Jack of Kent <http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/
4. The Pope is planning to visit the UK on a Papal visit later this year. The Pope's opposition to women's reproductive rights, gay equality, embryonic stem cell research and the use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV has a huge effect on the human rights of millions of people across the globe. We want to make sure that the UK government understands our concerns, takes the opportunity to speak out against these practices and does not make the taxpayer cover the cost of the visit. You can: 1)Sign a petition calling on the Prime Minister to act 2) Join the facebook group on this issue http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ProtestthePope/ And http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=app_2373072738&ref=mf&gid=140603339279
5. The War for Children's Minds: Stephen Law ISBN: 0415427681 Playground for faith and belief. UK. Quangoes of Religiosity. Religion in Schools REBT and Disconnection.
6. The Proper Structuralised View Of The World or The Proper Structuralized View Of The World. The Structural World View. Erich Fromm. R. Dawkings. (proper=scientific) *Technology is the application of science and that is where much confusion lies. Aquire - The Useless Knowledge of Bertrand Russell ie., History, Evolution and Cosmology. See, http://luckyme0.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A18BF3FCC5E126A2!210.entry
7. Without a map orientation is impossible - Bertrand Russell.
7.1. Mind Mapping. Mind Maps For Children
7.1.1. Humanistic Approach
7.1.1.1. BHS