Comments on: Shut up and teach, Amen

By: bansheegrrll

bansheegrrll — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:31:28 +0000

I just heard about the whole “resignation” thing on NPR yesterday. They had an interview with her on Science Friday. What a funny, sane, smart, competent, well-adjusted and well-spoken woman.

No wonder they had to get her out of the Texas Educational System.

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BBC’s The Big Read » Blog Archive » Shut Up and Teach, Amen — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:37:55 +0000

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By: Dr. Denny

Dr. Denny — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:53:49 +0000

Attention, S&R fans:

A star is born. Yea, E!

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:34:43 +0000

Sweet Jesus, JS, would you keep your voice down! "In 1897 the Indiana House of Representatives unanimously passed a measure redefining the area of a circle and the value of pi. (House Bill no. 246, introduced by Rep. Taylor I. Record.) The bill died in the state Senate." (Source.)

By: Rho

Rho — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:33:24 +0000

Don’t forget his almighty pastaness the great spaghetti

By: JS O'Brien

JS O'Brien — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:17:51 +0000

I’ve often wondered why we don’t just teach every religious conflict with every scientific Theory, from every religion? For instance, the Bible says that pi is equal to 3. Why not just teach that beside the theory that pi is equal to 3.14159 etc? The Bible says that there are four pillars of the earth. Fair enough. That should be taught alongside the theory that the earth is spherical, surrounded by vacuum, and orbits the sun. For that matter, the Bible says there are waters above and below the earth. We should teach that alongside the theory that there is nearly empty space above and below the earth, if we could figure out what’s “above” and what’s “below.”

And that’s just the Bible. Wait until we get into the earth being on the back of a great turtle and the like.

I really think this would be good for our children.

By: Jim Booth

Jim Booth — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:54:24 +0000

“Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose,” as the saying goes.

This sounds not particularly different (okay, the idiocy of “intelligent design” is recent – “intelligent design” is surely a textbook example of what we in the English building call an oxymoron – and speaking of oxymorons, that word seems to describe the people supporting ID, doesn’t it?) from when I taught in public ed in the ’70′s….Good to know progress has been so assiduously avoided….

This horse shit explains to some degree why I wound up a professor – because, after all, life in the professoriate is sooo much better and the problems aren’t swept under the rug….unngh, unngh – sorry, had trouble getting my tongue out of my cheek….