On 12/8/05, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To summarise, we argued that while
> India does not have a quantitative problem in science education it has
> a serious qualitative problem. We explained that science education in
> India is less about learning to think skeptically and analytically and
> more about ingesting voluminous lists of facts, theorems and laws
> followed by regurgitation on to the examination paper.
Well, at least science text books in India don't come plastered with
health warning stickers about evolution being "just a theory'. I have
studied in all sorts of schools - Sikh, Hindu, Catholic, Anglican and
secular - and in all of them the powers that be somehow found a way of
reconciling science with the religious / sectarian background of the
school, with little damage to science. The only queasiness I saw
during my time in school ("back in those days...") was an almost
uniform inability of teachers, of both genders, to handle the
chapters on sex education in class. I really did not mind because by
this time I could read the "dirty bits" by myself.
Thaths
--
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even
remotely true!" -- Homer J. Simpson
