Teaching Science Badly – and Well

#240 by SR

[Man`s capacity to delude himself and his willingness to be deluded is limited only by his imagination.

You should know this by now, your pseudonym has the answer embeded in it. i.e., ``abcd``

These are the four kinds of people (based on their belief structure).

a) atheists and agnostics ... those who don`t buy into any of it. ....]


One small correction:

Agnostics are defined as follows:

Agnosticism (from the Greek a, meaning ``without`` and gnosis, ``knowledge``, translating to unknowable) is the philosophical view that the truth value of certain claims—particularly theological claims regarding metaphysics, afterlife or the existence of God, god(s), or deities—is unknown or (possibly) inherently unknowable.

Agnostics claim either that it is not possible to have absolute or certain knowledge or, alternatively, that while certainty may be possible, they personally have no knowledge. Agnosticism in both cases involves some form of skepticism.


The second category of Agnostics are the most honest - they profess not to know.

It`s mostly because the teachers who teach science at school lack the passion themselves. I remember having a Physics teacher from PINSTECH and she loved her subject. We called her a nutty professor but at the end of the day it was her passion and zeal for her subject which intrigued us and we started to see Physics with the same fascination as she did.

Such teachers are rare, and we were extremely lucky.

However I personally do NOT think there is anything wrong with the Pakistani curriculum, the fault lies in the examination criterion and style.

[...] ... ``II. Second, good teachers must emphasize learning rather than teaching. The two are different. Learning is a process that progresses from the concrete to the abstract as cognitive abilities slowly improve. But students first need to get acquainted with the things around them such as devices, organisms, materials, shapes, and numbers. They must observe them, collect them, handle them, describe them, become puzzled by them, ask questions about them, argue about them, and then to try to find answers to their questions. Abstractions develop after these experiences, not before.`` ... [...]

Sir, in my assessment, science study is really boring because above mentioned things are really missing in our science education.

Perhaps the reason for it lies in an internal contradiction of science itself. Which is following:

[...] ... There cannot be airy-fairy discussions of things. Science refuses to offer an opinion on things that are unobservable, or whose existence is impossible to verify even in principle. What you cannot see may still actually be there, but science is going to be mum about it. It’s as simple as that. ... [...]

My opinion is that Galileo was able to perform experiments on projectile motion and falling objects of different weights mainly because the first phase of this process i.e. ``airy-fairy`` discussions about characteristics of falling objects already had taken place in ancient Greece. Galileo`s achievement was only that he tried to test those ``airy-fairy`` ideas using experimental techniques. My own ``airy-fairy`` idea is that in order to do any experiment whatsoever, at first we need an ``idea`` that may need confirmation, clarification, comprehension or better to say, ``experimental verification``. You have discussed ``hypothesis`` as one of the roots of scientific method. How this ``hypothesis`` is different from an ``airy-fairy`` idea? I think the only difference is that ``hypothesis`` is such ``airy-fairy`` idea which is intended to be experimentally verified. Science is really boring because it is unduly narrowing down its own field/scope. It is denying the importance of subjective ideas. Attitude of science towards subjective ideas is like as if subjective ideas do not exist at all. On the other hand, science claims to be the knowledge of those entities that exist. Science says what cannot be measured, cannot be studied. What cannot be studied, should be ignored and only those entities should be studied that will be left after having ignored many existing entities. Science avoids seeing things in their totality. It emphasizes on ``measurements`` which means that science deals only with ``parts`` of things. Science makes some ``amazing`` attempts to ``measure`` some non-measurable entities as well. Science claims to measure let`s say, ``intelligence``. According to science, this person has this particular number of IQ, and that person has that particular number of IQ. Why? Because those two persons performed differently in a similar nature test...!!! Science says those two persons should have been given similar nature test because they were having same age. In all this process, science ignores many other processes simply because science doesn`t want to study them, may be by calling those processes ``non-measurable``. Science has no explanation that how a lower IQ person can have some edge over higher IQ person in any particular field. Science does not even want to study these matters. Why study of science be not boring...???

Regards!

Maroc Liberté, Radio Islam, Ahmed RAMI, Faisal Al Kasim, AL JAZEERA TV CHANNEL,
- radioislam.org , radioislam.net , abbc.net .

Morocco. Maghreb, Monde arabe. Palestine. Islam. Farrakhan. Judaïsme, Sionisme.

Pour: un Front Islamique de liberation du Maroc. Pour une

révolution islamique pourlaliberté au Maroc. Pour un mouvement islamique uni auMaroc.Pour plus de liberté
et moins d´interdits! Dansl´Islam: la liberté

estla régle, l´interdit est l´exception.Islam.Islam.Islam.Islam.Islam.Islam.Islam.Islam.Islam.Islam.Isl am.Islam.Islam.Islam.Islam.Islam.Islam.Islam.Islam.Islam.Islam.Islam.Islam.














Les grands ne sont grands que parce que

 nous sommes à genoux. - Levons-nous!








You
are what you know and what

 you do with what you know

No hate. No
violence

Races? Only
one Human race


United We
Stand, Divided We Fall

Freedom of
Speech - Use it or lose it!




--Know
Your enemy!

--No
time to waste. Act now!

Tomorrow it
will be too late

What You
Don´t Know Can Kill You!






This Site is owned by a group of freedom fighters from different
countries in support of

Ahmed
Rami 's struggle

(Email)




Choose
a language:


French



Deutsch


Swedish



Russian


Spanish




Italian-  




Nederlands




Indonesian







SSerb



Polish







Norsk




Arabic



Suomi




Danish



Roman




Slovakien



Czech




 Hungarian



Portugues






Croat



Bulgar

















Latest
additions:



English




French



Russian




German



Svenska












Nederlands








Portugues






Italian




Arabic



Spanish




Suomi



Danish





Czech


Slovakien




















www
radioislam.org















Some chosen
topics









 

When...









Jewish children 

send 'love'
messages


< b>(Jewish Photos)





US
War Without End for Israel ?






رسالة
مفتوحة&nbsp;الى
محمد السادس





أحمد
رامي يتحدث لجريدة &nbsp;الأيام





What
is
Islam?







La
trag&eacute;die marocaine






Act
now


&nbsp;










إنها

كارثة أمة

تتآكل أمامنا ونحن لاهون أو ساكتون

!






ما الحل
وما


العمل؟< /b>


مقالات للكاتب فهمي هويدي
المعبرة عن نبض وهموم الأمة









&nbsp;A
plot against Radio
Islam&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;





&nbsp;French
|

English
|

German
|

Swedish

|


Portug

|

Italian










Caricatures



Photos


This
Site


Quotes





Letters


Forum





Myrdal


Islam





Authors


Khamenei



Nasser


Ben
Bella





Rami


Farrakhan



Franklin


Thion





Yassine


Witness



Sindi



Intifada




Faurisson



Marx


Luther



Hitler




Shahak



Garaudy


Koestler


Remer





Ford


Yahya



Bush



Graf





Medias


Newspapers



Who?


Conspiracy





Revisionism


Victims



Books


Catechism





Protocols


US-Congress


Talmud



Israel




Judaism



Nazism


Capitol



War




Peace



Crime


Enemy


Right





Jews


Mossad



Khazar


Drugs





ADL


History



When


Zion





Islamism


Links


USA



Russia




Germany



England


France



Turkey




Maroc



Morocco


Trag&eacute;die


Lebanon





Sweden


Sverige



Suisse


Time





Massacres


Iran



Domination


Democracy





False


Money



Resistance



N&auml;tverk










Ahmed
Rami on Al Jazeera:



What is
going on in Morocco?



L´ensemble
du Monde Arabe occup&eacute; par les
juifs!?















Abdeslam
Yassine:

Sorti de la petite &agrave; la grande
prison: sa lettre




au nouveau
gardien de la prison

|

French
|
English
|
Deutsch

|
Spanish
|
Arabic
|











|

U.S.Interest

|

Media

|

"Peace"|< b>


Zionism

|
Intifada |

Quotes |Sanctions

|




|


Crime |


Lebanon
|&nbsp;

|

Resources
|


Books
|
Domination |

External Links

|











USA´s Rulers:&nbsp;


All Are
Jews!








Palestinians won't get their independence

&nbsp;until Americans get
theirs!







Jewish
Power in

Russia






Farrakhan on



Jewish
Racism








The
Ideology behind



Massacres

&nbsp;









Heros



&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;





Farrakhan

|

Franklin


&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;






&nbsp;









Freedom
fighters




|

Yassine
|

Rami
|












Marx
on Jews




|

french
| English
|
Svenska

|












Garaudy:
The Resistance



|

English

|

French |

Deutsch
|
Svenska

|












Christianity:
The Resistance



|
English

|
French
|
Deutsch
|
Svenska

|
Portug
|












Islam:
The Resistance





|
English
|
French
|


Deutsch
|

Svenska
|

Portug
|


Portug
|

Russian
|












Did
Six Million Really Die?




|

English
|
French

|

Deutsch
|
Svenska
|

Danske
|

Russian
|Portug.|





&nbsp;









&nbsp;Judaism, Nazism, Islam





Read, compare and judge
yourself








Judaism













The
Protocols of Zion




|English
|

French

|

Deutsch
|



Svenska
|


Portug

|


Russian

|

Spanish


|

Italian |

Danish

|


Arabic

|

Hungarian




|

Serb





|



Polish




|




Croat






|


















Racism,Domination,Occupation




|

English |
French |

Deutsch

|
Svenska |

Portug |
Russian |


Spanish

|



















Nazism












The
testament of Adolf
Hitler




|


French |

English |


German |

Italian |

Spanish |


Norsk

|









Mein Kampf

|




French |



English |


German |

Svenska

|




Nederlands





|





Hungarian&nbsp;

Bulgarian

Portugues&nbsp;




Czech&nbsp;&nbsp;Spanish&nbsp;
Russia&nbsp;




Finnish

pdf-files







English
German
Italian
Nederland's
Polish

Slovak
Bulgarian



























Islam





What
is

Islam?

&nbsp;




















Rami
and
Rushdie.













Islam
et libert&eacute;










The
moral and political


Legitimacy

of Criticizing
Jewry


















The
Jewish war against
Islam

and
the Islamic Resistance








&nbsp;









It
is time to see the REAL enemy
!











&nbsp;








We
should step up strugle against
Zionism


















It
is not just enough to know that we are
right













The Jewish
"Peace Talks"











Jewish
Grip

on
American Film and

Television Promotes
Bias


Against
Muslims

By


Abdullah
Mohammad Sindi







Jewish

medias

The
Jewish Lies: Jewish Propaganda




Islam and the West

By
Dr.
Abdullah Mohammad Sindi
















Shahak about: Judaism


French



Les
Juifs sans
masque




Swedish



Shahak
om judar




German



J&uuml;dische
Religion












The
Jewish
Laundry

of
drug
Money








The
Ideology Behind
Massacres

Jewish
History, Jewish
Religion

About
Shahak´s "Jewish
History..."


Jewish
hatred towards
Christianity

From Hebrew-Language
Newspapers

Who
Run USA
?

Israel
Versus Iran chapter

Israeli
Policies Toward Iran and
Syria


Israel's
Strategic Aims and Nuclear
Weapons


Syrian
Cities and Relations with
Irak


Israeli
Foreign Policy after the
Oslo


Israeli
Foreign Policies, August
1994



Israel
and the Organized American
Jews


Jewish
Lobby in the US and the Iran
Affair








&nbsp;


Our
weakness


We must know that
our weakness is Israel's strength.



The regimes that are in
power in our countries are like dead bodies, our "leaders"
are politically finished. Instead of stepping down in honor,
they cling bitterly to power and try to drag their peoples
along into the precipice.



&nbsp;In the first
place, we must conquer tyranny, decadence and corruption in
our own hearts and in our countries! Instead of giving up,
we must work seriously to create the economic, political,
military and social conditions for the future victory of the
Justice.



The future belongs
to the forces of Islam. The Hezbullah, Hamas and the Jihad
are the Islamic response to the Zionist challenge. The Islam
began in the 6th century as a cultural, and spiritual
movement against the superpowers of that
time.





The military
strength of the Islam grew as a consequence of its spiritual
strength. Today, capitulating before the jewish arrogance is
not a solution; it is betraying the future
generations.



If we can not
create victory today, we muste not create defeat ourselves.
The least We can do is to capitulate without resisting.



Any
"solution" violently extorted, any unjust "peace"
(capitulation) will be rejected by the future generations.
The only real solution of the Palestinian question lies in
the return of the Palestinian people to their
fatherland.


&nbsp;
Ahmed
Rami


Nos
voleurs!

Il y a des
probl&egrave;mes extr&ecirc;mes o&ugrave; nous nous
debattons et que nous avons trop tard&eacute; &agrave;

regarder en face. A la diff&eacute;rence des pays
occidentaux, nos "pays musulmans" ne connaissent que peu de
hold-up de banques.
C'est que les
voleurs d'envergure savent qu'aujourd'hui, dans nos pays, la
source d'enrichissement la plus s&ucirc;re, la plus rapide,
la seule &agrave; vrai dire, est le pouvoir.

&Agrave; titre
d´exemple : le systeme f&eacute;odal (makhzen) - qui
n´a rien &agrave; voir avec l´Islam - que Hassan
II a p&eacute;rp&eacute;tu&eacute; anachroniquement au Maroc
en plein XXe si&egrave;cle - fait de la corruption
g&eacute;n&eacute;ralis&eacute;e un systh&egrave;me de
gouvernement. Le r&eacute;gime de Hassan II constitue, pour
notre pays, pour notre peuple et pour notre avenir un danger
mortel r&eacute;el.

Face &agrave; ce
danger et &agrave; son d&eacute;fi, il n y a, devant nous,
qu´une seule alternative et une seule r&eacute;ponse:
une r&eacute;volution islamique radicale,
&eacute;clair&eacute;e, intelligente, tol&eacute;rante et
liberatrce! En Islam, la libert&eacute; est
la
r&eacute;gle.
L´interdit est l´exception.




Il s´impose,
AUJOURD´HUI,
urgence et n&eacute;cessit&eacute; vitale de cr&eacute;er un
FRONT
ISLAMIQUE UNI POUR
LA LIBERATION
DU MAROC.



Les
grands ne sont grands que parce que nous sommes
&agrave; genoux. Levons-nous!

Ahmed
Rami



&nbsp;


















"
War is
ugly, but to be dominated is still uglier
"
&nbsp;Imam
Khomeini








"The
Old and New Testaments had collided. The rabbi's dad had
taught him about an eye for an eye - or 20 homes for a
stone, in this case - whereas my dad had taught me about
turning the other cheek. Judaism and Christianity had
collided. So was it any surprise that Judaism and Islam were
colliding"
R.
Fisk, The Independent, 29 ao&ucirc;t
2001





"Everyone
has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this
right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference
and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas
through any media and regardless of
frontiers."
Article
19. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December
10, 1948,






&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pay
attention!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;


This web Domain&nbsp; is on a freedomserver, which works against
censorship.


The contents of this Site are
the responsibility of its creators, not of the Server Provider.






&copy;


NO
COPYRIGHT.-
All
texts
published or put
online
in this Site may be freely republished, reproduced or
&nbsp;translated
as long as
Radio Islam&nbsp; where they are located is
mentioned.









This
Site is owned by a group of freedom fighters from
different countries in supportof



Ahmed
Rami
's
struggle.

&nbsp;(Email)