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Originally Posted by StanT
Politics in a social studies class? Go for it, I'd go out of my way to have liberal minded students defend a conservative position and do the same for conservative students.
Politics in math class? Not a chance.
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Maths and science can certainly be political... look at Galileo. Look at the continued rejection of Darwinism by some political classes.
I myself think that Darwinism does not provide the telling answers to understanding human life, but to say that it should not be taught is to me ridiculuous. Just as much as to not teach people about the major religious/spiritual views of the world while in school.
I do not consider that Christian parents should have (for example) the right to prevent their children learning about Islam, or dinosaurs.
Nothing at all exists in vacuum. If a mathematics class is to be reduced purely to learning equations I find this limited and limiting still, when the context of these theories and their creation is ignored.