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As physicists we should know better than to argue individual
cases in support of any general principles.
Hi all-
I think that there is much truth to be learned from Bob's
experience.
Further evidence in support - leeading physicists are
astonishingly erudite on many subjects outside of physics.
Regards,
Jack
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, LaMontagne, Bob wrote:
If students today have such difficulty reading, shouldn't our efforts be
directed at improving this important life skill rather than something
like physics which they probably won't use more than a couple of times
throughout their life?
I am not being flip here. My grammar school education was in a small 4
room Catholic parochial school. Throughout the entire 8 years we never
had a lesson on science of any kind - never mind physics. But we did get
mind numbing hours of drill in reading, diagramming sentences,
arithmetic, elementary algebra, music, and (of course) Catechism. Some
of us ,like me, went on to public high school. Science and math there
came incredibly easy for us. Our group ran the science club, the ham
radio club, and two of us were Westinghouse Science Talent search state
winners. Our advantage was our strong reading and math skills. We
learned science - we weren't taught it.