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My schools effectively taught the scientific method, which is probably more important than anything else. It's useful for science and other critical thinking.
by rhino369 12y ago
My schools effectively taught the scientific method, which is probably more important than anything else. It's useful for science and other critical thinking.
Sure, our science fair projects weren't really science, but it is a good developing block.
- hga 12y agoNow that certainly is useful, and I'm forever grateful for the 8th grade teacher who was also the middle school's assistant principal who taught me that (and who's younger brother did a good job with general chemistry in high school). But echoing the general discussion, he was not able to convince the high school placement drones that I was ready for biology, so if not for a great Algebra I teacher I would have totally stagnated in 9th grade, and it was generally grim since I'd correctly realized in 1st grade my calling was science and was learning absolutely none of it that year (1974-5 academic year, the ARPANET was 5 years old with 46 IMPs on it (Interface Message Processors; they could support multiple computers, but few sites had more than 1-2). Continuing, OK, now you know the scientific method. How far can you take that without math? How many of today's big scientific public policy issues require a fair amount of math (and physics) to really think about?