[IP] more on WORTH THINKING ABOUT: THE SORRY STATE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
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Subject: Re: [IP] WORTH THINKING ABOUT: THE SORRY STATE OF SCIENCE
EDUCATION
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 14:20, David Farber wrote:
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] WORTH THINKING ABOUT: THE SORRY STATE OF SCIENCE
EDUCATION
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WORTH THINKING ABOUT: THE SORRY STATE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
Culture critic Neil Postman decried the shallow state of science
education in this age so dependent on the technological fruits of
science:
"From the point of view of the ascent of humanity, the scientific
enterprise is one of our most glorious achievements. Would it be an
exaggeration to say that not one student in fifty knows what
'induction'
means? Or knows what a scientific theory is? 0r a scientific model? Or
knows what are the optimum conditions of a valid scientific
experiment? Or has
ever considered the question of what scientific truth is?
Is this question really any different from the question asked by Dr.
Bill Cosby recently, when he asked why inner-city kids weren't learning
to speak English?
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