http://education.guardian.co.uk/high...852041,00.html :
"Chemistry and physics departments are closing. The number of A-level
science students is plummeting. Why doesn't anyone want to do the hard
stuff any more, asks Emma Brockes - and does it matter if they don't?"

The situation is much more serious than it appears. Soon there will be
no relatively clever students that can learn by rote idiocies like
"Sugar dissolves in water because the entropy increases" and "I measure
your clock to be slower than mine and you measure mine to be slower
than yours" and hypnotists will have to introduce simpler and more
attractive idiocies. So a major educational reform is imminent.

Pentcho Valev

"Pentcho Valev" wrote in message oups.com...
http://education.guardian.co.uk/high...852041,00.html :
"Chemistry and physics departments are closing. The number of A-level
science students is plummeting. Why doesn't anyone want to do the hard
stuff any more, asks Emma Brockes - and does it matter if they don't?"

Because it takes brains to do the hard stuff. Hell, it sometimes
even hurts.
For some reason pedagogics have decided that school kids
should never hurt themselves using their brains.
"Under No Circumstances a Kid Should Feel Frustrated!
Special Schools For The Less Gifted? No Way. If There's
One Kid In The Classroom That Hasn't Got The Brain To
Grasp It, Then Drop The Subject".


The situation is much more serious than it appears. Soon there will be
no relatively clever students that can learn by rote idiocies like
"Sugar dissolves in water because the entropy increases" and "I measure
your clock to be slower than mine and you measure mine to be slower
than yours" and hypnotists will have to introduce simpler and more
attractive idiocies. So a major educational reform is imminent.

Yes, we need a reform that offers special schools for the
less gifted like yourself.

Dirk Vdm

"Dirk Van de moortel" wrote
in message ...
|
| "Pentcho Valev" wrote in message
oups.com...
| http://education.guardian.co.uk/high...852041,00.html :
| "Chemistry and physics departments are closing. The number of A-level
| science students is plummeting. Why doesn't anyone want to do the hard
| stuff any more, asks Emma Brockes - and does it matter if they don't?"
|
| Because it takes brains to do the hard stuff. Hell, it sometimes
| even hurts.
| For some reason pedagogics have decided that school kids
| should never hurt themselves using their brains.
| "Under No Circumstances a Kid Should Feel Frustrated!
| Special Schools For The Less Gifted? No Way. If There's
| One Kid In The Classroom That Hasn't Got The Brain To
| Grasp It, Then Drop The Subject".
|
|
| The situation is much more serious than it appears. Soon there will be
| no relatively clever students that can learn by rote idiocies like
| "Sugar dissolves in water because the entropy increases" and "I measure
| your clock to be slower than mine and you measure mine to be slower
| than yours" and hypnotists will have to introduce simpler and more
| attractive idiocies. So a major educational reform is imminent.
|
| Yes, we need a reform that offers special schools for the
| less gifted like yourself.
|
| Dirk Vdm

Go back to your nitting, fired ****head.
dstupid/dm = V
dstupid + k(nit) = Vdm
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Fumble.htm
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonde...mart/Smart.htm
Androcles

Sorcerer wrote:
"Dirk Van de moortel" wrote
in message ...
|
| "Pentcho Valev" wrote in message
oups.com...
| http://education.guardian.co.uk/high...852041,00.html :
| "Chemistry and physics departments are closing. The number of A-level
| science students is plummeting. Why doesn't anyone want to do the hard
| stuff any more, asks Emma Brockes - and does it matter if they don't?"
|
| Because it takes brains to do the hard stuff. Hell, it sometimes
| even hurts.
| For some reason pedagogics have decided that school kids
| should never hurt themselves using their brains.
| "Under No Circumstances a Kid Should Feel Frustrated!
| Special Schools For The Less Gifted? No Way. If There's
| One Kid In The Classroom That Hasn't Got The Brain To
| Grasp It, Then Drop The Subject".
|
|
| The situation is much more serious than it appears. Soon there will be
| no relatively clever students that can learn by rote idiocies like
| "Sugar dissolves in water because the entropy increases" and "I measure
| your clock to be slower than mine and you measure mine to be slower
| than yours" and hypnotists will have to introduce simpler and more
| attractive idiocies. So a major educational reform is imminent.
|
| Yes, we need a reform that offers special schools for the
| less gifted like yourself.
|
| Dirk Vdm

Go back to your nitting, fired ****head.
dstupid/dm = V
dstupid + k(nit) = Vdm
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Fumble.htm
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonde...mart/Smart.htm
Androcles

PANIC IN EINSTEIN'S ZOMBIE WORLD

One of the last things you want to do is to get zombies all paniced and
stampeding. A very dangerous situation.

wrote in message
ups.com...
|
| Sorcerer wrote:
| "Dirk Van de moortel"
wrote
| in message ...
| |
| | "Pentcho Valev" wrote in message
| oups.com...
| | http://education.guardian.co.uk/high...852041,00.html
:
| | "Chemistry and physics departments are closing. The number of
A-level
| | science students is plummeting. Why doesn't anyone want to do the
hard
| | stuff any more, asks Emma Brockes - and does it matter if they
don't?"
| |
| | Because it takes brains to do the hard stuff. Hell, it sometimes
| | even hurts.
| | For some reason pedagogics have decided that school kids
| | should never hurt themselves using their brains.
| | "Under No Circumstances a Kid Should Feel Frustrated!
| | Special Schools For The Less Gifted? No Way. If There's
| | One Kid In The Classroom That Hasn't Got The Brain To
| | Grasp It, Then Drop The Subject".
| |
| |
| | The situation is much more serious than it appears. Soon there will
be
| | no relatively clever students that can learn by rote idiocies like
| | "Sugar dissolves in water because the entropy increases" and "I
measure
| | your clock to be slower than mine and you measure mine to be slower
| | than yours" and hypnotists will have to introduce simpler and more
| | attractive idiocies. So a major educational reform is imminent.
| |
| | Yes, we need a reform that offers special schools for the
| | less gifted like yourself.
| |
| | Dirk Vdm
|
| Go back to your nitting, fired ****head.
| dstupid/dm = V
| dstupid + k(nit) = Vdm
| http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Fumble.htm
| http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonde...mart/Smart.htm
| Androcles
|
| PANIC IN EINSTEIN'S ZOMBIE WORLD
|
| One of the last things you want to do is to get zombies all paniced and
| stampeding. A very dangerous situation.
|
Nah, stir em up, let's have a riot!
If Dork were a man I'd hit him, but I've always been kind to animals.
Androcles