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posted by mrpg on Tuesday January 31 2017, @11:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the god-is-pleased dept.

Not only in America, teaching evolution is under attack. Indeed, future Turkish children will likely not learn about evolution in school, as soL international reports:

İsmet Yılmaz, the Minister of National Education in Turkey on Friday announced the new curriculum draft for school. After the draft is finalized, textbooks will be published based on the new draft to be used starting from 2017-2018 academic year.

The new curriculum draft brings some radical changes:

[...] Evolution Theory is excluded from Biology courses. The related unit named "The Origins of Life and the Evolution" is replaced with "Living Beings and Environment".

This is actually not the first strike against evolution in Turkey:

In 2013, the government had made a regulation, which let the Intelligent Design model to be included in the curriculum besides the Evolution Theory.

Also at Turkish Minute: Gov't removes evolution theory from new school curriculum

Related: What is Turkey's problem with Darwin?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2017, @06:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2017, @06:25PM (#461347)

    Last I was in school, there was very little learning going on. I remember lots of memorization (which the mind will naturally and thankfully easily forget except for odd fake facts like "wizard of oz was the first color movie", "mushrooms are vegetables"), brainwashing to use BS statistics instead of the scientific method, and lots of argument from authority/consensus like the food pyramid that told me to eat tons of wheat and corn. I also think I remember being taught that a 0-dimensional earth evenly illuminated on all sides like a sphere would be 255K, so the greenhouse effect increases the temperature of the real 3-D Earth by 33K. That last one is all over the internet too so I can't be sure.

    The learning came from getting access to journal articles and blogs filled with intelligent discussion in the comments. Government run schools should limit themselves to teaching basic reading and arithmetic skills.