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Unread 27-05-2006, 16:55
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Re: U.S. Leadership in Science May Depend on 8th-Graders

A large school system cannot give its kids all the different sciences, but I think that it can learn how to progress its teachings. Maybe when the kids are really young, you teach them about the unknown things, like astronomy, and you teach them about moon exploration, because these will be the people that they will idolize. They, too, will want to reach the moon (side note: this will probably prevent them from believing in the hoaxers).

Math, too, has become the evil of all evils because it is as if teachers force the kids to hate it ("I know it's hard..."), and it stops them from trying. I know, for example, that in 6th grade, the kids were learning fractions, something that my parents had taught me way before that.

Then again, not everyone can understand these things, and they must go on to different subjects, because that is where they are talented.

Maybe, the solution, could just be a change of priorities. Instead of children being brainwashed in idolizing celebrities, instead they can be "brainwashed" () in idolizing scientists, writers, historians. If there they cannot succeed, then I guess, they will end up idolizing the others.

I think that the idea of entertainment has the connotation of fun and brainless, when instead, entertaining could be the idea that these briliant, talented individuals have created things like the Segway, shuttles, satelites, etc.

Last edited by Daisy : 27-05-2006 at 17:00.
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