esk@wucs.UUCP (Eric Kaylor) (12/11/84)
[] From Warren Montgomery (ihnss!warren) > My advice to concerned parents is to focus on teaching people HOW > to think, not WHAT to think. It is not possible to teach the HOW without the WHAT. Intelligence needs knowledge to work best. Of course, people learn things from direct experience as well as communication, but refusing to teach a child facts would, as far as I can see, be a disaster. I would say that the key is to teach the "what" undogmatically, and encourage children to examine it -- *after* their critical abilities have risen to the challenge. --Paul V. Torek, ihnp4!wucs!wucec1!pvt1047 Please send any mail directly to this address, not the sender's.