[IP] more on WORTH THINKING ABOUT: THE SORRY STATE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Randall <4whp@insightbb.com>
Date: July 7, 2004 3:15:20 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Cc: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
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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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
> Date: July 7, 2004 11:46:41 AM EDT
> To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@warpspeed.com>
> 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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