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- From: Wesley.R..Elsberry@f303.n347.z1.fidonet.org (Wesley R. Elsberry)
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- Subject: Teaching facts
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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 10:50:09 PDT
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- In a msg on <Dec 17 09:42>, Jessica Smith of 1:346/14 writes:
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- JS> But they can teach
- JS> ******** although they aren't teaching facts? This seems
- JS> somewhat
- JS> odd to me.
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- You can teach semester after semester of "facts" and never approach
- teaching science. In order for a class to be a science class, one
- must be taught things that will assuredly be revised at some point
- in the future. Theories and hypotheses are always open to review
- in the light of new data (the facts, as it were), but theories and
- hypotheses are not themselves facts.
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- This distinction is probably the most important concept which a
- science class can impart, and most, it seems, fail to do so.
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