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I always "survey" my students on the first day by asking a series of
questions:
What do you think physics is about?
Why did you sign up for this elective course?
What qualities do you most admire in a teacher?
What have you learned in school that you don't believe?
The responses to my last question are from all disciplines. Here are some
of the most shocking ones from science in the past few years:
Evolution
Humans built the pyramids.
Electrons orbit around atoms.
Protons and neutrons are elementary particles.
That I'll actually use math in the grocery store.
Dinosaurs died from a meteor not a volcanic explosion.
Evolution
Dinosaurs died from a meteor not a volcanic explosion.