Scientific Literacy


	Scientific Literacy

Rustee

4-16-2008 10:27 PM

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science, education

Rustee says:

And that's what science really stands to give them. That's the reason you and I are drawn to science. And I can see no reason to offer them anything less.

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                How serious a problem is it? And what can we, or
                should we, do about it?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi341.htm"><P>
                We have many measures of scientific literacy. You
                might question any one, but together they show a
                steady decline from about 12% literacy in 1957 to
                only about 5% today.
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                The media reply by inventing ways to catch a
                child's interest. But does a man dancing in a
                DNA-molecule costume say enough about the beauty of
                science to children? Is that a rich enough food for
                their imaginations? Do we really let them know that
                science will feed their natural hunger for
                unanswered questions?
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                argument that favor scientific literacy. One is
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                tell them that technical literacy will help them
                compete with the Japanese.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi341.htm">
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                eighth-graders don't care a fig about competing
                with the Japanese. Nor do they fear difficulty. But
                they are determined to find stimulation and
                pleasure.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1E011655-3E73-47F6-A846-98E80FDE225A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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