Re: Rookie Questions

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 98-09-18 06:54:29 EDT, larryf@capital.net writes:

<< It`s the perfect unifying theme, (did`nt Huxley say that?), and I think it
would draw the kids attention better than memorizing all the parts of a
picture of a flower (or other such nonsense).  >>

Need to do both: provide unifying principles of science >as well as< specifics
such as parts of flowers, names of bones, and so forth. Rote memorization is a
good thing, even if sometimes hard work. Can't tell you how useful it was in
later chemistry courses that I memorized the periodic table back in the fourth
grade just for fun (when the last trans-uranic element was merely californium
#98--remember having to add einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, and nobelium a
year or two later).