On 30/09/2011 04:26 PM, Mike Raiford wrote:

> Some, and maybe all of that is happening, but it isn't done by filling
> out scientific method worksheets like I had to do in school.

Those scientific method worksheets we had to do at school... I work in a 
company where people perform ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS, and let me 
tell you, it looks /nothing like/ anything you saw at school!

(On the other hand, there /is/ an absurd amount of paperwork involved...)

> Definitely. Rote memorization teaches nothing, except how to memorize.

This.

I still think they should teach String Theory in schools - to 
demonstrate how even though something is widely respected, has brilliant 
people working on it, and involves amazingly complex mathematics, that 
doesn't make it science. Being testable makes it science.

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