JohnW
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| Quote (GaryGaulin @ Oct. 16 2014,23:46) | It's also important that a student be taught how to learn on their own, which my early public school teachers told me they were trying to accomplish, for me to be thankful to them for. And one of my most favorite elementary level science teachers let me know he wished the public school curriculum could meet my needs. I sensed they felt somewhat powerless to change things and like I would rather start incubating a few chicken eggs especially with a glass window we figure out how to put on it to observe development into a chick a farmer can have back after hatching for them. He too might find a lot more fun and educational than the classroom usual they were required to teach. In eiter case, their sensing my need for what the public schools are not able to provide made a lasting impression on me. Enough so that they are a science teacher I admire, for having letting me know early on that finding science class uninteresting and boring is in my case expected.
Science teachers do not make born to be scientists, their parents do, then they only hope wherever they send them to school works out and they don't maybe get rejected as unteachable and have to be home schooled like Thomas Edison's mom got stuck with but thankfully managed on her own. Galileo would have to thank monastery monks who would have had the (hard to find around) books he needed in their library and helped him figure them out, and later considering formal science teachers he had to be pompous jerks who are more concerned with keeping up appearances. Not getting along in an academic system others seem to be doing well in, is also relatively common among the most successful born to be scientists/engineers/inventors of them all. Science is not served by stereotypes that make it appear that the opposite must be true. |
Gary, who spent longer in rehab: your science teacher or your English teacher?
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Math is just a language of reality. Its a waste of time to know it. - Robert Byers
There isn't any probability that the letter d is in the word "mathematics"... The correct answer would be "not even 0" - JoeG
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