Redesigned Zoo?

[Neptual]

Where is your original post, brimstoneSalad?

While I may agree with you that it has the potential to make it (theoretically) morally justifiable (maybe not for all species), I'm not so sure whether it has a significant education value. It definitely makes it more fun and memorable for the kids, but what is it that they could learn which they could not learn at school?

Perhaps the experience. For example it's boring to read about fossils for kids, but a imagine see it for yourself being able to touch it. I feel that it would inspire kids to take interest in subjects they're fascinated with.

[brimstoneSalad]

Where is your original post, brimstoneSalad?

VA deleted it by honest mistake. No big deal, but I didn't feel like writing it again.

It was mostly about modern technological innovation, animal psychology, and business practices.

Perhaps the experience. For example it's boring to read about fossils for kids, but a imagine see it for yourself being able to touch it. I feel that it would inspire kids to take interest in subjects they're fascinated with.

Right. There's something ineffable about personal experience that can't be fully replicated by a book or film.

Particularly when it comes to a living being.

Seeing an animal, and that animal seeing you, and experiencing that subtle interaction with another conscious being is more than seeing a nature documentary.

I'm interested not in just what will technically educate children about facts; education goes beyond facts and into experience, and the wisdom only that can impart.

Sometimes you have to do in order to really know, and particularly to inspire the kind of passion we need the next generation to inherit.