Beliefs

Postman and Weingartner also suggest that a commitment to a set of ideas is dangerous. In fact, they say that Alan Watts makes this point when dealing with "religious indoctrination" when he noted "Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world." (p. 5) The authors suggest that the words "set of facts" could be substituted for religion in this statement. If we never believe in anything, there could be no rule of law. If there is no truth, every man could do as he pleases, without consequence, because he does not have the same set of beliefs. It is good to question beliefs, even in religion, but it is not good to say there is not truth in this world. We should teach students to be inquisitive, but not to deny all truth.