Re: How 40 years of liberal experiments killed U.S. science education
- From: Chris L Peterson <clp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:57:21 GMT
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:35:25 -0700, Rich <rander3127@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The fact something like this exists is further testament to the fact
of the subject. Replace sciences with "social sciences" in the
schools and now Third World countries like India turn out most of the
engineers and scientists.
From Sky & Tel:
The August Mars Hoax Is Back
Nonsense. There are a zillion problems with education in the U.S. and
other places, but the annual Mars story on the Internet has nothing to
do with that. I don't even think it's an actual hoax, just
misinformation that gets circulated and recirculated. I have no idea how
many people actually pay all that much attention to it. You can't judge
people's education based on the email they receive, especially when
there's so much junk in circulation (which is probably coming from just
a small number of sources).
In the case of the Mars email, there was never a year attached, and the
material was correct as originally published. I don't think it indicates
a huge failure of education that people are inclined to believe what
appears to be a fairly reasonable sounding article (depending, in part,
on whether the bit about "through a telescope" is still part of it,
which it sometimes is and sometimes isn't).
Bad education shows in things like people not knowing the physical basis
of a year. I think that 50 years ago people would have been just as
willing to accept the story about Mars.
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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