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To: WildTurkey

It IS a lie, when simplification goes to the point that it no longer bears any real resemblance it's not simplification, it's BS. I already did, electron orbits in high school chem as taught are a damned lie and we do our country as a whole a disservice by teaching them. It means everyone who doesn't go beyond high school chem believs BS, and everybody who does has to waste time unlearning the lies they were told.

Lying to people doesn't form a basis for continued education, lying to people forms a basis for the majority of the population to not know what they're talking about.

No, there's nothing wrong with teaching them how to bake a cake if what you teach them will actually result in an actually edible cake. What we do in high school chem class is teach them how to cook a pot roast and tell them it's a cake. The goal of science class is to teach the student how thing work in theory or practice (depending on the science being discussed), when we make stuff up that isn't how things work we aren't teaching them science. If we're going to teach them fiction we might as well hand them a novel.


218 posted on 01/20/2005 6:18:38 PM PST by discostu (mime is money)
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To: discostu

I am STILL waiting for you to cite some examples of this "fiction" you keep ranting about ...


224 posted on 01/20/2005 6:29:20 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: discostu
It means everyone who doesn't go beyond high school chem believs BS,

Please cite some examples of your "BS".

227 posted on 01/20/2005 6:32:49 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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