Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> > > Everyone doesn't need to be a scientist
> but
> > everyone has practical applications for
> science.
> > It should get more emphasis and more
> students
> > should be pointed toward it. Even the car
> > mechanic could exceed his training if he
> > understood more. He might be more likely to
> invent
> > a new tool or device if he had more
> background.
>
> You'd be surprized at how much science is taught
> to kids. Somehow it's become important to turn
> every kid into an engineer or scientist, and
> forget the practical world. The end result is that
> we have just as few kids in science as ever,
> because no matter how hard you try you can't make
> a kid whose skill lies in carpentry into an
> engineer. A kid with an IQ of 78 isn't going to be
> an astrophysicist, no matter how simplistic you
> make things. Some kids are smarter than others,
> and some like the sciences, and some don't, and
> there's no way to change that. (My parents sure
> tried.)
>
> In many places it's been so dumbed down the kids
> are too bored to care, in others it's been so
> politicized it's laughable. In California much of
> the science curriculum has been taken over by the
> locavore movement, with predictable results. My
> nieces, who graduated just 4 years ago, took
> agriculture classes to fulfill the science
> requirement. What did they do? Plant a garden.
> Important? Sure. Agribusiness is critical.
> Identical to chemistry or physics or biology? No.
> And this school is in the very top of high schools
> statewide.
In fact our kids our learning dispite what seems to be strenuous efforts to discourage them doing so.
One of the most important tools of a scientist is the ability to observe and record same.
Kids who were raised playing Super Mario World hardly ever fail to save their completed work on a computer...thus they never lose said work due to a rogue finger.
How many Parents in Canada (where the conversion to metric is decades old)do you think have to aks their Kids what 20 celsius is in Fahreneit?
...or how many Grams of meat one needs to make hamburger helper(which calls for a Pound)?
How many adults know how to set the clock on their VCR??
How many parents out there have had their kids tell them "You eat too much salt "?
Sloppy study/research habits are simply Laziness....PERIOD
metaphysics and existentialism have absolutely nothing to do with it.
Warwick
" I have always found that the main obstacle to free
association on these boards is the broad
misconception that what we do not know is more
significant than what we do know."
Warwick L Nixon, March 8, 2019