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Re: World's noise



Which makes one wonder if 50% of today's college students _really_ belong
there! ;-)

Rick

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John Clement writes:


Some recent work indicates that more than 50% of today's college
freshmen
are operating on the concrete level - they do not abstract. Work done by
Jensen,
et al., indicates that many *never* achieve the abstract operations stage.

Many - if not most - of my college astronomy students are unable to
form
a
mental picture of the relationship between the earth, sun and moon.

Wes