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Re: Killing a subject (was Re: A. Einstein and science-fairs)

Wouldn't it be nice if John was right. And if Bill was right we could
kill two birds with one stone. Too bad. But if we could make the
compensation for scientists comparable to what pro basketball players
are getting and vice versa, no one would be playing basketball and
our science classrooms would look like sardine cans. And it wouldn't
make any difference what else we did.

Hugh

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, John Mallinckrodt wrote:

> > Then, after a few generations when Basketball is dead, blame
the students.
>
> Sheesh. If it would be this simple to kill professional sports and rid
> the world of all of the wasted energy, perverted economics, and false
> hopes they engender, sign me up!

Heh. My message was intentionally a bit subversive. If public school
truely has the power to permanently turn kids off of any subject, then
certainly we could harness this phenomenon intentionally. If Basketball
is so important, why not "do it right" and include it in the curriculum?
:)

At the same time, we'd need to convince everyone that science is just
unimportant fun and games meant to exercize the mind (but should never
affect grades.) Kids then could then go to the permanent and ongoing
Science Fair in the gym to play a round of Science. But if they wanted to
do Basketball, they would have to go to Basketball class, and do homework
and take tests.

evil :) !


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