Re: percent success

[sample@lyon.edu (John D. Sample)]

At 4:38 PM on 11/13/96, <phys-l@mailer.uwf.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Sue Ramlo wrote:
>
> > I think the word gets put out against physics by elementary school
> teachers > > who don't know much (if any)physics and feel afraid of
> it....and they
> > project that to their students....and the cycle continues...
> I think that the methods used to prepare teachers are much more likely to
> produce a literary person than a mathematical and scientific one.  The
> result is that teachers frequently don't like or understand physics and
> can't use mathematics.  Unfortunately, they pass these characteristics on
> to their students.  Makes it tough to teach physics!
>
>
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It doesn't stop in elementary schools.  A few years back my daughter in
honors english, grade 11, came home with a paper she was rewriting.  Her
english teacher suggested she begin the paper with, "Scientists, enmeshed
in their own beliefs, are unable to appreciate..."  =^(*)

Anybody know how to make a snarly face?

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