The biological ability to learn and to be brainwash is the same. If a children mind is set to a point where it actually analyze the situation before the taking in the information, it will take forever to learn.
Think about how long it takes for a person after 20 to learn a new language? Or the ability for a person to significantly inprove chess skill after 20?
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Baby has a natural tendency to suck. Instead of trying to "evolve" so that the baby will not suck because some babies are sucking in sewage, it is the responsiblility of the adult to control what the baby is allow to suck.
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I would think one of the solution is to let children install "critical thinking" into their OS. Any nonsense that get into the original OS will be dispell once "critical thinking" is activated. (consider the volume of information passed, nonsense is inevitable. Christianity is only one among something like homeotherapy, astrology, wishfull thinking, Santa, ... etc)
In fact it is what HK government is trying by having a "common sense" course in school. In Canada, I heard they are speaking of a basic philosophy class. |