We want to teach children to accept the norms of our society and the narrative we tell about it. A lot of what we teach is essential pro-system propaganda.
Teaching moral uncertainty doesn’t help with that and it also doesn’t help with getting students to score better on standardized tests which was the main goal of educational reforms of the last decades.
Compulsory education is an organ of the state. Nation-states evolve to perpetuate their own existence. Teaching moral uncertainty is counter-productive toward maintaining the norms of a nation-state.
We want to teach children to accept the norms of our society and the narrative we tell about it. A lot of what we teach is essential pro-system propaganda.
Teaching moral uncertainty doesn’t help with that and it also doesn’t help with getting students to score better on standardized tests which was the main goal of educational reforms of the last decades.
Compulsory education is an organ of the state. Nation-states evolve to perpetuate their own existence. Teaching moral uncertainty is counter-productive toward maintaining the norms of a nation-state.