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No Science, Please – We’re British
American Thinker ^
| 9/27/05
Posted on 09/29/2005 7:30:22 AM PDT by ZGuy
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:30:23 AM PDT
by
ZGuy
To: ZGuy
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:32:10 AM PDT
by
Dustbunny
(The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
To: ZGuy
Well so long as the kids are happy and interested, I suppose it doesn't really matter whether or not they actually learn anything in school...
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:32:47 AM PDT
by
NJ_gent
(Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.)
To: ZGuy
"George Orwell...George Orwell...Please pick up the white courtesy phone."
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:33:54 AM PDT
by
Eepsy
To: ZGuy
Won't be long until we follow suit.
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:35:08 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(It's not a war on terror... it's a war with islam.)
To: ZGuy; RadioAstronomer
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Actually, it might be for the best. The students who are genuinely interested in chemistry or physics, and prepared to do the math, will have the science lectures and labs to themselves, while the deadwood are off becoming "relevant." ("Slimming issues"? Gark!)
The rulers and the ruled ...
(Science education ping, RA :-).
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:36:37 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Something bad happens? Conservatives get over it!)
To: Tax-chick
I lived in and out of england and continue to do busines there. It is a good place to visit. But I have learned a lot and since 1985 when I have been asked my thoughts about it I have always replied the same way.
England is 200 years of history unhampered by progress.
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:40:41 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: ZGuy
>Great Britain which has given humanity so many of its very greatest scientific minds, including
Issac Newton and
Francis Bacon Meanwhile, France turned out
Leibniz and Descartes. Who needs
Newton and Bacon?!
To: edcoil
My brother has lived in England for the last 5 years ... but he doesn't have any children!
It's very scenic, but it sure seems like they're getting weird.
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:42:14 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Something bad happens? Conservatives get over it!)
To: ZGuy
"That it would happen in Great Britain which has given humanity so many of its very greatest scientific minds, including Issac Newton and Francis Bacon is beyond belief. "
Well, that same Francis Bacon wrote: Concerning the advancement of learning, I do subscribe to the opinion
that, for grammar schools, there are already too many
the great number of schools which are in your Highnesss realm doth cause a want, and likewise an overthrow [surfeit] both of them inconvenient and one of them dangerous; for by means thereof they find want in the country and towns, both of servants for husbandry and of apprentices for trade; and on the other side there being more Scholars bred than the State can prefer and employ
it must needs fall out that many persons will be bred unfit for other vocations and unprofitable for that in which they were bred up, which will fill the realm full of indigent, idle and wanton people
Francis Bacon, 1611 letter to James I.
So, the new regulation are addressing the growing shortage "of servants for husbandry and of apprentices for trade". As such, it is the most wise measure and is to be supported and applauded.
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:46:04 AM PDT
by
GSlob
To: GSlob
regulation are addressing = regulation IS addressing. editing error.
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:47:19 AM PDT
by
GSlob
To: theFIRMbss
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:48:47 AM PDT
by
Vicomte13
(Et alors?)
To: ZGuy
science lessons were often dull and boring, and required pupils to recall too many facts.
The idea of offering alternative courses won't solve this problem, IMO. Abolish all schooling is the only solution.
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:55:12 AM PDT
by
SittinYonder
(Flea, feather, bird, egg, nest, twig, branch, limb, tree, and the bog down in the valley - o.)
To: ZGuy
Hey man it's
COOOOOL!
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:57:16 AM PDT
by
Old Seadog
(Birthdays start out being fun. But too many of them will kill you..)
To: ZGuy
More precisely, students will be permitted to choose between traditional courses that teach the Periodic Table, ionic equations, the structure of the atom, Boyles law, and Ohms law and newly-designed courses that will teach about the drugs debate, slimming issues, smoking and health, in vitro fertilization, and the nuclear controversy. There is no way that they can teach "the nuclear controversy" without teaching the hard sciences. If you can't understand nuclear fission, beta and alpha decay, the basic engineering principles behind nuclear reactors, the safety considerations (which are very technical), and the effects of radiation on biological material there is no way to have any comprehension over whether nuclear reactors are good or bad. It has long been my view that the "nuclear controversy" arose because people were not given decent science educations and did not understand the science and engineering principles behind reactors. This will hardly help. Just more indoctrination to help keep the "nuclear controversy" running.
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posted on
09/29/2005 7:57:25 AM PDT
by
burzum
(Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.-Adm H Rickover)
To: edcoil
Next time you're over there, can you pick up some BSA parts for me ?
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posted on
09/29/2005 8:03:27 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Troubled by NOLA looting ? You ain't seen nothing yet.)
To: theFIRMbss
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born in Leipzig in 1646 and died in Hannover in 1716. I don't know if he ever spent time in France, but he was German.
To: ZGuy
Math (or "maths" as they call it) is often dull and boring...that should be dropped too, since calculators are so cheap nowadays.
To: ZGuy
Amazing. Another reason to privatize schools. You know we are only 20 years or so behind Britain's mistakes.
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posted on
09/29/2005 8:06:58 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: Verginius Rufus
>Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born in Leipzig in 1646 and died in Hannover in 1716. I don't know if he ever spent time in France, but he was German
Yikes! You're right, of course!
Oh, man. I'm feeling very
British this morning . . .
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