Website review: Wellington Grey -- Articles -- A ph...
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•39 reviews since Jun 7, 2007
science, education, politics
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bristol3 rated 10 days ago- When you dumb-down the masses you can control them.
- Schitso rated 12 days ago
- Wow... that's horrible. Education systems all over the world suck.
- darrylheron rated 2 weeks ago
- One of the points raised by this piece is some of the questions related to testing and education. How do you really create tests that show if the students have actually learned about the subject, and how do you determine what they should have learned? On the other end of the spectrum, I remember a teacher from a college I attended who prided himself on the fact that his class average was failure. That seemed to me to be at odds with the goal of teaching. I remember hearing teachers say in various classes that there is a no stupid question, I know that this is meant to encourage participation by the class but I have observed that there are really some stupid questions. I think that if teachers found that there are way more kids asking the stupid questions because they truly don't understand, would they have the time in the classroom planning to take the needed time to further explain the topic that isn't understood? The more I think about this piece the more I realize that there are a lot of questions raised by it. Thank you bristol3 for stumbling this and brining it to my radar.
- markchenjd rated 3 weeks ago
- Is this real? Wow.
Okay, it's easy to overreact here. It looks like the school board has replaced real physics with a "conversational science" course. As long as they eventually offer real physics courses, no harm no foul.
That said, I'm a little disappointed. Exposure to real physics in high school is an eye opening experience that everyone should have the opportunity to experience.
liquidiridium: you wrote in response to this article "it's like our educational system is totally regressing here in the US...." You do realize the author is talking about the UK, right? - Is this real? Wow.
- DickBeldin rated 3 weeks ago
- We only have a few generations left as humans. The next population bottleneck will be very rigorous. Those who don't understand how the world works are destined to be left by the roadside. Evolution in action.
- CruskitUpon rated 3 weeks ago
- A truly sad indictment on the state of education in the UK today. I wonder how far and wide this stretches in the Western World? Surely this kind of dumbing down disguised as teaching has reached further shores.
- liquidiridium rated 3 weeks ago
- how horrible. it's like our educational system is totally regressing here in the US instead of going forward. so sad.
- DanielYeats rated 6 months ago
- In my day (not that long ago really), physics was unnecessarily dull, focusing as it did on the everyday mechanisms of the ordinary world without giving us any glimpse of the cosmos to inspire us. Having discovered some of the amazing revelations of Einstein and so on since leaving school, I felt this was appalling enough. Reading this letter though, it appears that the subject has gone from a badly presented one, to something that bears no relation to what I understand as Physics. Even the lessons on Brownian motion and Hook's Law that I endured would be preferable to this political tripe.
