Re: C8 donation
- From: "OG" <owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 00:36:17 +0100
"Rich" <rander3127@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sep 28, 11:25 pm, "Dennis Woos" <dpw...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I donated my old orange Celestron-8 to my son's high school today! My
son's
physics teacher is a good guy and i think the scope will be well taken
care
of...
I am not saying that your donation was a bad idea, as I have no info
about
this specific school/teacher. However, I always discourage folks from
donating scopes to our local schools. The teachers don't know how to use
a
scope, and so it ends up stuck in a storage closet. I suggest that the
equipment is instead donated to a club or an individual who will use it
at
public events, where the students will actually get a chance to see/learn
something.
Dennis
Given the emphasis on junk science in schools today (other than
probably lecturing students on the "value" of the U.S. joining Kyoto,
http://www.junkscience.com/MSU_Temps/Kyoto_Count_Up.htm) they've
probably displaced many of their science programs with "social
science" and other intellectually-lax disciplines. Maybe they can use
the C8 to observe the poor and border-crossing aliens and find out why
the current administration should be replaced with a socialist one to
solve the World's problems? Our local science centre, where students
used to be introduced to the REAL sciences at a young age, was taken
over by left wing cranks who have turned this publically-funded
institution into a socialist theory tank, dealing only with sociology,
ecology and promotion of global wealth redistribution, otherwise known
as "global warming theory." It's about indoctrination, not education.
If education about global climate change can be called 'indoctrination, not
education', what can we call covert corporate sponsored climate change
denial?
.
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