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the question posed was 'if there is no truth, what are we supposed to teach our children?'

though our group did not come to a conclusion or compromise, we came up with a lot of ideas. some of them are as follows:

- we can still teach knowledge. knowledge being the skill to see that things are constructed.                                                                       

problem with this - if we begin to teach kids that everything is constructed and there is no truth from the time they are in kindergarten, it will take us a few weeks. because if they don't have enough knowledge built up in them, they have nothing to break down. also - isn't insisting that everything is constructed a forced truth in itself?

 - truth has many definitions. there isn't one way to get to the root of this problem. besides, in school, we are taught to understand. we need to understand A to get to B, but that doesn't mean that either A or B is true.

- maybe we should just teach children as we teach them now, teach them about science, art, religion, literature. but don't enforce a single concept of right and wrong on them - give them the material and let them ask the questions and find their own answers.

- by saying the world is constructed are we saying are we saying it's all random? that there are no patterns? maybe truth is recognising the patterns that exist.

problem with this - the patterns are always changing - if there is no continuity, how can that be the truth?

- the kids should just play games =)