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... the notion that most (?)
high school students have absolutely no idea about their spatial
relationship to the planet they live on. I find that, despite our using a
spherical globe as a model of the earth, most students cannot make the
connection between that model and the earth they live on. Many believe we
live inside the earth. (Otherwise we would fall off.) This is a very
simple example of the inability of HS seniors to grasp even the simplest
abstract concepts.
I was astounded when I came to HS teaching as a second career (some 18 years
ago) to learn - really learn - what an inability to abstract means. Modern
educational philosophy completely ignores these limitations.