[thechat] LOTR!

[Joe Crawford]

Martin wrote:

> On Thursday, December 27, 2001, at 07:56  pm, Joe Crawford wrote:
> 
>> Teaching a child that certain things are /false/ is quite comforting 
>> somehow.
> 
> 
> True, but it's hard to do that definitively. I was at a talk by
> Umberto Eco and he was telling how he was having problems
> doing this with his daughter.

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Indeed and Amen!

Which is why skepticism and logic must be trained. Well, it's on TV - 
how can we see what is true? How do we know what is true? We must doubt 
as the default. Nothing is *definitive* - but by giving children the 
tools to think, we serve them well.

	- joe <http://artlung.com/blog/>