[WikiEN-l] Challenge: explain NPOV in a sentence.

[Ray Saintonge]

Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 8/8/06, Sarah <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>"Teach the controversy"
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach_the_Controversy is the name of a
>>campaign and strategy fashioned by the [[Discovery Institute]] for
>>teaching creationism in schools. Perhaps not quite the image we want
>>to associate with. :-)
>>    
>>
>I would have gone more with "Describe the controversy, don't become part of it."
>
That would be too passive.  Teaching the controversy requires a greater 
effort to understand what your opponents are saying to the extent that 
you would be able to give an eloquent defence of the opposing point of view.

Ec