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pondlife on April 2, 2008 - 2:45pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I think the main purpose of school is to contain children so that adults can go to work. Why else do we send them at 4/5 yrs old??

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CO2 on April 2, 2008 - 3:34pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

My daughter, a 13 year old PETA influenced vegetarian, will be speaking to the school principal with objection to science class dissections of frogs, mice, etc. I would venture that maybe 1-2 of the class will become surgeons. What do the rest learn from that that can't be seen in 3d modeling, textbooks? Dunno, it's what we always do in 7th grade science..

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WinstonK on April 2, 2008 - 7:02pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I think that dissecting animals is one of the more valuable things that kids do in school. For really learning how animals function there's no better way to teach it. A computer simulation doesn't give you the same feel or the same experience of discovery as actually dissecting an animal. This isn't only knowledge that is valuable to kids destined to become surgeons, doctors, nurses and veterinarians. Dissecting animals also provides experience with the scientific method. These are things that are much harder to teach solely from books and simulations.

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FalloutMonkey on April 2, 2008 - 8:35pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Sorry, but most people will never have any advantages in their life, because they have performed a dissection on an animal, and to see how the body works an anatomy book would suffice for most of us.

And if dissection has to be teached, why not letting them watch an autopsy? That way they would actually learn something about their own bodies, which is more likely of any value, than to know the inside of a frog or mouse.
As far as I can see those school dissections create just more dead animals and not indispensable knowledge.

And you can very well learn how to work in a scientifical way without cutting a single being into pieces.

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jim burke on April 3, 2008 - 1:11am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Winston Churchill said "the primary use of a liberal education is to know when someone is talking rot."

And speaking of "talking rot," what has any of this to do with the topic of rapidly depleting natural gas supplies?

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