“I can see why evolution would be controversial but the periodic table? I guess we won’t be getting any more engineers and scientists from India in the future.”
Those pursuing science curriculums will still get that and all the other bacics.
All my neighbors and friends are above average in education but I be none of the have looked at the periodic table since high school.
It sounds like they will make good future Boeing engineers.
“I guess we won’t be getting any more engineers ans scientists from India in the future’’.
This is not entirely a bad thing at all.
It looks to me that the Indian schools are simply forcing students to have a “major” in high school. If you focus on computer science, you don’t need the biology. My bet is that they teach real history and real vocationally based education instead of pervert studies and wokism.
Dumbing down the students. Tribal and cultural values over education? Or, maybe they hired some American-trained teachers?
Yeah we will.
Most young learners in India will no longer be exposed to key science topics in school textbooks — unless they voluntarily major in science in higher classes.
This just means that unless you are going into fields where such learning will be useful it will not be part of your curriculum.
I can see why evolution would be controversial but the periodic table?
It is not about something being controversial but about it being useful. If you are on the business management path then what use is knowing the periodic table to you?
This is something I often hear from students, "what good will this do me?"
I understand this method of training. I do not necessarily approve of it and I do not teach my kids that way. I am currently teaching them to be generalist not specialists.
They should know about a wide variety of topics just to be well rounded people. This also reduces your naivete and makes it less likely you will be conned. You need to know enough to know when you are being lied to. This is something that many young people do not have.
They have a vague sense that what they are hearing is not the truth but they do not have any idea of where to start thinking about it much less how to do actual research on the subject.
How can one cut the periodic table of elements and Pythagorean theorem?
The other stuff not a big deal, but those 2? Come on!
Hardly - the ones we get now only know what they were taught at IIT and will argue anything contrary. So this isn’t much of a dumbing-down.
“I can see why evolution would be controversial but the periodic table? “
It has something to do with transuranium elements having periods.
All or none? That’s a false dichotomy. The periodic table and Pythagorean theorem have value in themselves and as examples of scientific and mathematical reason. Evolution, global warming, climate change, “safe and effective” (mRNA) vaccines, have purposes that are other than scientific.
It will be place in their ‘female health’ books as part of their education on their mensural cycles.
The periodic table can be dispensed with, so long as you teach how electrons populate shells surrounding the nucleus. Basic atomic theory makes more sense than the periodic table.
And generally, discussions of Mendeleev, Faraday, and Darwin are irrelevant. You need to teach the current understanding of chemistry, electromagnetism, and evolution — the latter through molecular biology and ecology, rather than Galapagos Islands finch beaks.
Here is the point of this comment. She said she will never go in Target again and had cut up all of her Red Cards.
One Doctor willing to call out a cohort of Doctors who don't abide by their Hippocratic Oath.
As an important step in becoming a doctor, medical students must take the Hippocratic Oath. And one of the promises within that oath is "first, do no harm" (or "primum non nocere," the Latin translation from the original Greek.)
They only need to learn to call the US and pretend that they are an IRS agent...