Truly one of your best commentaries ever! The weight-lifting analogy is perfect. Thank you for continuing to share your brilliant and sensible thoughts. Sandy Forrest
When I was back in a college chemistry classroom I saw the textbooks strip out the stories about historic chemists and chemistries out of the textbooks to make room for "relevant" topics. Their idea of relevance left much to ne desired, but it was those personal interest stories that got me interested in science and in chemistry in the first place. Of course, they included some intellectual history of the topic, showing how people's thinking evolved along time, and all of that was lost, for "relevance."
Truly one of your best commentaries ever! The weight-lifting analogy is perfect. Thank you for continuing to share your brilliant and sensible thoughts. Sandy Forrest
When I was back in a college chemistry classroom I saw the textbooks strip out the stories about historic chemists and chemistries out of the textbooks to make room for "relevant" topics. Their idea of relevance left much to ne desired, but it was those personal interest stories that got me interested in science and in chemistry in the first place. Of course, they included some intellectual history of the topic, showing how people's thinking evolved along time, and all of that was lost, for "relevance."