Schools

"But science students accept theories on the authority of teacher and text, not because of evidence"  from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions page 80.

Anyone else find this statement by Kuhn disturbing? Although somewhat controversial, Jean Piaget thought that it took until around age 12 for kids to be able to have then ability to generate abstract propositions, multiple hypotheses and their possible outcomes is evident. Based on this, teachers could tell kids under the age of 12 whatever they want and most would believe.