Today, in the bus to work...

Jos Dreesen <jdr_use at bluewin.ch> wrote: I just wanted to say.... I won't consider this as a big problem we realy need to start worrying about education! Why? The shool will always(!) simplify things to teach them to children. This has beend the case and always was the case. If you talk to higher educated people what they think is right what is being teached from their area of knownledge in the school (e.g. chemistry). you'll always here "this is wrong what they teach!" but this is the case. Children should not care about every detail for everything. This is what later education is for where you specialise for an area... everything before is "a little bit true, but not the full truth". I can give you examples of how children are being teached on how sulfuric acid is being produced but what they are being teached will _never_ work.... you can't load them with 1000000 details of 100000 areas of science.