Brian Greene: Stressing Importance of Math, Science Education

[UltraProle21]

sports are as important as art or music.  common denominator of the three: they're hobbies that shouldn't be school subjects.

[drrobertoboogie97]

All education should be stressed.

[RuneDrake314]

Two search topics:

Lockhart's Lament

Vi Hart's Blog

Both are math. Both are awesome. Especially the second.

[shnazer1]

Most of Science is speculation.

[fastball10101]

@shnazer1 I imagine you are referring to the myriad of news article you see proclaiming "the next big thing"

Those are usually not a result of bad science, or baseless speculation from scientists. They are usually a result of poor journalism. The journalists take the ideas in the fringe of research and proclaim it "the next big thing" before there is any consensus or even any separate confirmation, that the discovery is legitimate.

I submit that it is the Journalism, NOT the Science.

[mphello]

@fastball10101

Greatest comment ever! And brainless shithead non-scientists and anti-scientists then blame the scientists and science and math in general, rather than the journalists where the blame rightly belongs, whenever the "next big thing" fails to live up to their expectations.

[joetoeb13]

@shnazer1 Are you religious?

[treasuredroperX]

@shnazer1 How is that?

[nuitaridark]

@shnazer1 um no. science is based on publically verfiable evidence, whereas religion is based on private prejudices.

[flavourfulferret]

@nuitaridark Isn't that a Dawkins quote? I remember him saying something like that...

[reno36]

Brian Greene is pretty much why I became a physicist

[likeroby]

so true...i hope the education system changes a little to make it more fun...we are going to have many more big scientists if we do