Website review: Wellington Grey -- Articles -- A ph...
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•41 reviews since Jun 7, 2007
science, education, politics
•wellingtongrey.net/articles/archive/2007-06-0...
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DanielYeats rated 8 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.
- jpcooper rated 9 months ago
- This is very, very sad.
- whistler rated 12 months ago
- and thats what comes of a government controlled system. how about we let teachers decide what to teach instead of politicians?
- FergusMurray rated 13 months ago
- A really worrying letter of complaint about the state of the physics GCSE exam in Britain. I can understand some of the motivation for trying to teach people to do things like navigate science coverage in the media, but good God are they ever going about it the wrong way.
- tyranicmoron rated 13 months ago
- Very depressing, but unfortunately all too true. It's a fairly recent occurrence too. I took the GCSE Science Double Award 3 years ago, and it was nothing like this. My brother is currently studying for it, and whenever I've had to help him with his homework I've been amazed at how simple and science-less it really is. I've just finished my A level Physics course, and was pleased to note that this does not seem to be happening at A-level yet. Although it may only be a matter of time...
- ericthehamster rated 13 months ago
- Too depressing. Sadly, Kurt Vonnegut was right.
