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Re: U.S. Leadership in Science May Depend on 8th-Graders

I think that children are failed even younger.

Remember those days when all the kids wanted to be astronauts?

That is the right time to teach them astronomy, because they have such an interest in it. That is not the time to teach them about plants, because that can come later. But because children are so easily grasped, if you show them what they want to see, then in the beginning of elementary school, even if the teaching is in fact elementary, children should learn about the stars, the galaxies.

It seems that the school leason plans are arbitrary, to what the school finds important. I think that this is one of those things, that you should let the children respond to, not the other way around.

Then, and I believe only then, can American drag, no - sweep, the children back to science and technology, because at an extremely young age, they will have learned to love it, and be more adaptable to learning other types of sciences.
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