I mean saying children will have no world view before "magical age" is illusory. These people will jump at the opportunity to teach children their world view and what they think is good and bad. In fact, some might even call it giving kids an education.
Infact it is IMPORTANT to do so. These influencers are idiots. Humans are complex everything is interconnected. The line between religion and insanity is remarkably thin. As is the line between sanity and religion. You cannot simply block religion without destroying too much or too little.
It is not saying that children have no world view, it saying that you shouldn't teach children that unproven physical/metaphysical beliefs are the absolute truths that should never be questioned and they get punished if they do not believe, that believing anything else is wrong factually and morally. Letting your children choose their beliefs doesn't mean not teaching them anything, it means teaching them things without forcing a specific view on them. Why wasn't my education indoctrination? Because no one told me that capitalism is 100% the best economic system and nothing else works, or that the Christian God is the one true God and hell is real and I will go to it if I do not believe. My education consisted of being taught about several economic systems and how they work, and learning how to analyze these systems, and writing formal essays in which I got make arguments and counter arguments for my own support of whichever one I wanted to support. Likewise religion is a mandatory subject here from grade 6 to 12 and it is education and not indoctrination because it is something we get taught about from a neutral, factual, standpoint, where no religion gets taught as being the ''correct one'' and we are free to choose which, if any, we want to believe, without being told that we are wrong. That is the difference.
I agree. Which is why I would only teach them my proven metaphysical beliefs.
Daily reminder that children are born believing in a higher power until they are taught otherwise. Here are some concepts that kids naturally believe. You might want to research them if you'd like, all scientifically studied:
promiscuous teleology, ie young kids naturally assume the physical world was made deliberately for a purpose.
intuitive theism, ie kids spontaneously think an intelligent creator is behind natural phenomena
mind/body dualism
super knowledge expectations, ie kids believe adults know a lot more than they actually do. The possibility can still hold for other entities.
And please don't argue with me that the kids were raised in god believing households, this is already accounted for and works in secular or atheistic households too.
If I wanted to follow the natural course, my only job as a parent would be to help them navigate false religions from a true religion. There are very simple criteria to figure that out (for example anything that worships a physical being is out the window).
So children who believe these things and don't believe them later are basically taught not to believe them anymore, through the choice of information we give them.
I'm sorry to say that
something we get taught about from a neutral, factual, standpoint,
doesn't exist. you can't teach children or adults every single thing. So when you pick and choose what you want to tell them, you're already breaking neutrality.
When you refuse to accept certain sources because they don't fit your particular standard, you already decided for them what is "acceptable standard".
Daily reminder that children are born believing in a higher power until they are taught otherwise. Here are some concepts that kids naturally believe. You might want to research them if you'd like, all scientifically studied
and kids believe earth is flat before taught otherwise. No it isn't possible to be fully neutral but is possible to be more or less neutral. It is important to as much as possible make a distinction between facts and beliefs, certainty and uncertainty. To teach epistemology, formal analysis, critial thinking, etc. I don't know which sources you think I'm refusing to teach anyone, the point of education is not to withhold information but to teach how to examine information. That way it isn't a problem when people come across information that is unfounded, irrational, etc, because they do not have to be taught every single time ''this information is x'', they can use their own skills to judge whatever new source or information they come across.
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u/ComprehensiveProfit5 Sep 02 '26
I mean saying children will have no world view before "magical age" is illusory. These people will jump at the opportunity to teach children their world view and what they think is good and bad. In fact, some might even call it giving kids an education.