Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Are Facts Obsolete?
In my opinion, the premise of this article seems quite correct...
At RealClearPolticis.com, Thomas Sowell wonders, "Are Facts Obselete?":
"The net result is a student population that does not even know enough to know what needs to be looked up, much less how to analyze facts, so as to test opposing beliefs -- as distinguished from how to gather information to support a preconceived notion that happens to be fashionable in the schools and colleges."
"Yet people are considered to be 'educated' after they have spent so many years in ivy-covered buildings, absorbing the preconceptions that prevail there."
"Facts that go against preconceived notions are likely to be ignored, even by many scholars."
