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. 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
1.1. 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'.
2. 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.
3. "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - Orwell.
3.1. Lying to Children http://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2007/11/lying-to-children.html
4. Earth's timeline
5. Genographic Project
6. Building Blocks Of Matter
7. CERN. The Large Hadron Collider. The Atlas Experiment.
8. Building CERN
9. The Ascent of Man - DVD 'The Long Childhood' Jacob Bronowski. BBC Shop.
10. 'How Art Made The World' Dr Nigel Spivey. DVD and Book.
11. Peter J Wilson 'The Domestication Of The Human Species'. Privacy is inextricably bound with giving and receiving attention. 'Prehistory' Colin Renfrew.
12. Why is philosophy important? 100 million and more deaths!
13. BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Woman's Hour, 15/04/2009 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jpq4g
14. Cosmos: Carl Sagan. Purchased for my kids 10 birthday. http://www.carlsagan.com/
15. What about gods? Chris Brockman ISBN 0879751061
16. Why do I have to go to school? The three R's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_three_Rs To learn to reason and order your thoughts. Becoming human is a process and not some event. The Prehistoric Mind. How did Prehistoric Man Think? The Primitive Mind. http://luckyme0.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A18BF3FCC5E126A2!1520.entry Teachers - What is self-evident - teach your teachers.
17. Cooking is the key to modern human evolution. Book - 'Catching Fire'. Protection rackets and much worse. We all can behave so badly. http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8270000/8270396.stm 'A Protection Racket'. Your views and your view of your culture?
18. 'We’re cruel to fill their little heads with dreams of fame' http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/india_knight/article6860110.ece
19. Value as an Institutional Fact: The Example of Money, Prehistory Colin Renfrew Religion (Ideology?) and Money. Religion (anthropologist reasoning - kindly - without mentioning supernatural or superstition) and Money - A system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating concepts of a general order of existence and clothing these concepts with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic, Clifford Geertz. Ref, REBT.
20. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34MtbXuL0Qs&feature=related Jacob Bronowski 'The Ascent of Man'. http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2010/01/a-simple-point-about-church-schools.html Whats wrong with this?, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjSjpNe1-Vc&feature=related Or, this?, http://www.teachers.tv/video/24057 And, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjO4duhMRZk&feature=player_embedded 'Aggressive Atheism' - is it required 2010! 82% - 'Religion does more harm than good' and 67% 'don't want Church or Faith Schools'. It still 'plunders and threatens', our Schools, and our children, by way of 'title and in 'governorships' (medievalist - privilege, in law). As the physicist Wolfgang Pauli liked to say, "They are not even wrong. That is, their arguments are useless and even detrimental to the pursuit of further knowledge." http://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/superstition-schools-teach-superstition/ And, self-harm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8476703.stm Children http://selfharm.atticmedia.com/Article.aspa?PageId=255&NodeId=249 Homophobic - homophobia http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23794333-nick-clegg-faith-schools-must-tackle-homophobic-bullying.do
21. Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are set forth. Kahlil Gibran from 'The Prophet'.
22. Hints of 'time before the Big Bang' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7440217.stm "A team of physicists has claimed that our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang." The chance of discovering life on other worlds is greater than ever, according to Britain's leading astronomer. Lord Rees http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8478033.stm Going - Inwards (into a black hole) to get Outwards (other universes)! NewScientist 28th November 2009, 'Superships' Marcus Chown "We could reach the stars if we built a dark matter rocket or a black hole starship, and we've got the physics to do it." Darwinian selection on the largest scale, 'The only reason for an intelligent civilisation to make a black hole, http://public.web.cern.ch/public/ he sees, is so it can travel the universe.' www.NewScientist.com "Astronomers have spied a star-sized black hole much further away than any such object previously known." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8483983.stm "These ripples in the fabric of space-time are an inevitable consequence of the theory of general relativity, and their first detection is being sought by intricate laser experiments set up in science labs across the world." Vatican chief astronomer Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes spoke publicly about his acceptance that we might not be alone in the universe. According to an interview with him in Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, the existene of ET "doesn't contradict our faith." From the Associated Press: http://boingboing.net/2008/05/14/popes-astronomer-on.html
23. "These basic decisions by our species in the near-term are critical,” says Jones “and thereafter the proper study of mankind is Man. Humanism is a wonderful global philosophy, and what your neighbor thinks about religion is a personal matter.” Ref, 'The Proper Structuralised View Of The World' Dr Erich Fromm 'The Fear Of Freedom'.
24. "These basic decisions by our species in the near-term are critical,” says Jones “and thereafter the proper study of mankind is Man. Humanism is a wonderful global philosophy, and what your neighbor thinks about religion is a personal matter.” Ref, 'The Proper Structuralised View Of The World' Dr Erich Fromm 'The Fear Of Freedom'.
25. “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act” Orwell - ”It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it” Bronowski
25.1. The Infantile Situation. The Making of Them. Education UK. Ref, Church Schools and Faith Schools. Religion in Schools REBT and Disconnection. Quangoes of Religiosity UK. Religion in Schools and Self-harming.
26. “In the ancient world, the rich held themselves to very different standards from the poor. Not much has changed, argues classical historian Mary Beard.” The Emperor Nero – mourned only by the “filthy poor” according to Tacitus Viewpoint: Why the rich look down on the poor http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20235692 Mary Beard on the long history of the rich looking down their noses at the poor.
27. “This is the chart that struck me most forcibly, both for what it tells us about the debts of the private sector, in particular the private finance sector; but also because of what the Treasury chose not to tell us: that the public debt to GDP ratio is tiny compared to private sector debt to GDP ratio.” ANN PETTIFOR, DIRECTOR OF PRIME ECONOMICS http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-16090055 Why the economic policy of the Coalition Government UK, GB, (Con – Lib – pact) is based on ideological bigotry that is fueling inequality and great suffering to many
28. 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.
29. 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/
30. 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
31. 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
32. Without a map orientation is impossible - Bertrand Russell.
32.1. Mind Mapping. Mind Maps For Children
32.1.1. Humanistic Approach
32.1.1.1. BHS