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> There's a lot to be said for teaching experimentation and the scientific method, but I'm worried they're teaching a whole generation of kids that science is i
by hemancuso 15y ago
> There's a lot to be said for teaching experimentation and the scientific method, but I'm worried they're teaching a whole generation of kids that science is inherently dangerous.
I guarantee any teenager with a legitimate interest in science would consider some amount of danger the most exciting part.
Inherently dangerous can be inherently awesome.
- TeMPOraL 15y ago> There's a lot to be said for teaching experimentation and the scientific method, but I'm worried they're teaching a whole generation of kids that science is inherently dangerous. I wouldn't even say 'dangerous', I would say 'real'. Exploding things are real. Making rocket fuel from sugar and fertilizer is real. Computing the angle of a falling ball is NOT real unless you happen to fire that ball from potato gun. Computing velocity of a block sliding from a wedge is not real, is terribly and utterly boring. Our education suffers from total detachment from reality. Physics lessons are boring, and it's right that kids point it out.