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Put a little science in your life - International Herald Tribune
by ubernoir at 5:13 am EDT, Jun 2, 2008 |
But science is so much more than its technical details. And with careful attention to presentation, cutting-edge insights and discoveries can be clearly and faithfully communicated to students independent of those details; in fact, those insights and discoveries are precisely the ones that can drive a young student to want to learn the details. We rob science education of life when we focus solely on results and seek to train students to solve problems and recite facts without a commensurate emphasis on transporting them out beyond the stars. Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that s been unfolding for thousands of years. Science needs to be taught to the young and communicated to the mature in a manner that captures this drama. We must embark on a cultural shift that places science in its rightful place alongside music, art and literature as an indispensable part of what makes life worth living. It s the birthright of every child, it s a necessity for every adult, to look out on the world, as the soldier in Iraq did, and see that the wonder of the cosmos transcends everything that divides us.
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RE: Put a little science in your life - International Herald Tribune
by Vile at 2:14 am EDT, Jun 3, 2008 |
ubernoir wrote: But science is so much more than its technical details. And with careful attention to presentation, cutting-edge insights and discoveries can be clearly and faithfully communicated to students independent of those details; in fact, those insights and discoveries are precisely the ones that can drive a young student to want to learn the details. We rob science education of life when we focus solely on results and seek to train students to solve problems and recite facts without a commensurate emphasis on transporting them out beyond the stars. Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that s been unfolding for thousands of years. Science needs to be taught to the young and communicated to the mature in a manner that captures this drama. We must embark on a cultural shift that places science in its rightful place alongside music, art and literature as an indispensable part of what makes life worth living. It s the birthright of every child, it s a necessity for every adult, to look out on the world, as the soldier in Iraq did, and see that the wonder of the cosmos transcends everything that divides us.
I believe that what kids need more than a little science in their lives is fireworks, dead animals getting kicked down the street, fistfights on playgrounds, raided parent's liquor cabinets, stolen older brother's playboys, trips to whorehouses, and unrepentantly violent movies. Science is just another thing to be bored in a classroom by when life passes unlived! |
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Put a little science in your life
by noteworthy at 7:22 am EDT, Jun 2, 2008 |
Brian Greene: Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. America's educational system fails to teach science in a way that allows students to integrate it into their lives. In teaching students, we continually fail to activate rich opportunities for revealing the breathtaking vistas opened up by science, and instead focus on the need to gain competency with science's underlying technical details.
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