The world is flat
01-12-2010 | 03:57 PM
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From: Hotel
lol!!!
Remember, you are teaching to the '1 percenters'. 99% of the sheeple just want to get thru the course with a passing grade. Then there is 1% that will find this fascinating, and go on to become a scientist or engineer. After all, we don't want to have too many pilots or engineers, it would bring down our sala..............oh, nevermind.
Remember, you are teaching to the '1 percenters'. 99% of the sheeple just want to get thru the course with a passing grade. Then there is 1% that will find this fascinating, and go on to become a scientist or engineer. After all, we don't want to have too many pilots or engineers, it would bring down our sala..............oh, nevermind.
Unfortunately, a standard cross section of society will yield a vast majority of "regular" average to below average folks who will contribute little to society beyond a mere sustenance of existence through their lives until their deaths.
The much smaller minority will be the ones who go on to carry the weight of the world on their shoulders and make a difference going forth demonstrating the ability to look beyond their own noses at what makes this world tick and to then think and discover their ways into areas either never ventured or long forgotten my mankind.
If you inspire one kid on the room, you've done your best. Not everyone worth their salt needs to be interested in science, for there are other ventures worth pursuing - but you can separate the two types described above by mere observation in most cases.
01-12-2010 | 09:49 PM
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From: Capt
Hi!
There are PhDs in Science who are in that Flat Earth Society.
Todays kids are not much different than kids of any other time. EVERY generation says that the ones below them are lazy, easily bored, not motivated, disrespectful, etc., etc., etc. Nothing new to see here.
I am a certified teacher, and a History Major, which gives me a more realistic perspective than most. For example, hasn't the internet increased the amount of sexual activity and prostitution today? WRONG! In the Victorian Era, in London, the average adult male had to have sex with a prostitute an average of FIVE times a week to maintain the numbers of prostitutes that existed. There was WAY more illegal sex going on back then, with no internet at all.
Kids today are taught WAY more than when I was in school, and light years more than kids in the 1930s, etc., etc. The levels of math and science that the learn at a specific grade are much higher than in the past, and more and more is being crammed into the same school day as we have always had.
Our school system, basically, is based on the Germanic system from the 1800s. Listening to and respecting authority, both by students and staff, is more important than learning academic information, and WAY more important than creative thinking. That is a weakness of our system.
Can our school system be DRASTICALLY improved? YES!!!
But, neither the Teachers, the Unions, the Administrators, the Parents, nor, especially, the General Taxpayers want the system changed. Students are probably the most open to change. Everyone else says to leave it the same...I hope we don't get a Hitler-type running for president!
cliff
GRB
There are PhDs in Science who are in that Flat Earth Society.
Todays kids are not much different than kids of any other time. EVERY generation says that the ones below them are lazy, easily bored, not motivated, disrespectful, etc., etc., etc. Nothing new to see here.
I am a certified teacher, and a History Major, which gives me a more realistic perspective than most. For example, hasn't the internet increased the amount of sexual activity and prostitution today? WRONG! In the Victorian Era, in London, the average adult male had to have sex with a prostitute an average of FIVE times a week to maintain the numbers of prostitutes that existed. There was WAY more illegal sex going on back then, with no internet at all.
Kids today are taught WAY more than when I was in school, and light years more than kids in the 1930s, etc., etc. The levels of math and science that the learn at a specific grade are much higher than in the past, and more and more is being crammed into the same school day as we have always had.
Our school system, basically, is based on the Germanic system from the 1800s. Listening to and respecting authority, both by students and staff, is more important than learning academic information, and WAY more important than creative thinking. That is a weakness of our system.
Can our school system be DRASTICALLY improved? YES!!!
But, neither the Teachers, the Unions, the Administrators, the Parents, nor, especially, the General Taxpayers want the system changed. Students are probably the most open to change. Everyone else says to leave it the same...I hope we don't get a Hitler-type running for president!
cliff
GRB
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