Why science education starting at a very young age is important.

Richard Dawkins has a good idea. Teach evolution starting at a very young age. Children should know what they are (apes) and how they got here. Another advantage of teaching evolution to young children: It could prevent brain damage from religious brainwashing. For example if a child's parents are know-nothing uneducated morons and they tell their children supernatural magic explains how the world works.

"I should love to have everybody taught about evolution from a fairly early age, because it is so important, so exciting. It answers so many questions and mysteries; it solves so many problems. Until you know about it, you're wandering around on this Earth looking at trees and birds and flowers, not knowing why any of them is there. Evolution is the answer to that riddle, so you're not really a whole person if you don't know where you come from and why you exist. And it's not difficult. It's not like relativity, it's not like quantum theory – it's something teachable to fairly young children."

-- Richard Dawkins