Re: Who's Counting: Accounting for Lower Girls' Math Scores

From: Robert Flory (wyogeo_at_MORETHANWARMmail.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:28:34 -0800

"Bob Ehrlich" <bobehrlich@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:yIWdnaq-LsxhjWDcRVn-1Q@comcast.com...
SNIP
> In our "culture" there is a terrific social barrier for either boys or
> girls to apply themselves to science and math. Acquiring the tools
> to commit science is hard work. this tool-learning is described by our
> pedagogues as "science". They then teach us the mantra that " science
> is fun". gmafb
>

Science is fun, hard work at times but fun none the less. Acquiring the
tools to commit science is hard work only if it isn't fun. When I had good
teachers it was fun, when I had bad teachers I went off and learned it
myself, having fun. If I wanted hard work and no fun, I'd bowed to the
pressure and become an engineer like everyone was supposed to do when I went
through school. The goal was to produce engineers or rocket scientists to
beat the Russian's who had embarassed us so.

Bob

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