Re: New Life Supporting Planet?
Originally Posted by
Tutor
perhaps the hardest thing to explain to our children is that their adult teachers are people too, apt to teach from erroneous notions/beliefs. this is hard because it tears away at ourselves as the adult parent, the first teachers of our children. what will our children then think of our eroneous beliefs as well? gosh darn, our destiny is the gereration gap. noooooooooo!
Hi, Tutor
When my daughter was in grade school she brought home the message from her teacher that people should not eat fat in their diet - period. I countered emphatically that Mrs. so-and-so was instilling a very general caveat, but, that in fact a diet high in fat does not absolutely result in high cholesterol.
I made this statement on the basis of my own experience (I have all my life eaten a diet of meat, eggs and dairy and my cholesterol level has never been an issue), but also based on information I gleaned from a science magazine which described the normal and natural export of cholesterol from the cell. For people in which 'dumping' mechanism is at work, cholesterol should never be a problem.
But the point I wanted to make about the fallable parent and child relationship is that the parent neednt' be RIGHT, nor must the teacher. I have tried to raise "Lucy" to think for herself - to never take anybody's word as absolute. Not even mine. We must decide our own truths and it's never to early to begin a healthy sceptisim.
Hope all is well....
Richard
Matter is only mind in an opaque condition; and all beauty is but a symbol of spirit.
- E Hubbard
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