Tag: scientific literacy

  • F I R E H O S E D ? Stop it, say ASTRONOMISTS

    Pamela Gay’s presentation contains a provoking picture. It shows a little girl in front of a firehose being hit so hard by the water that she almost falls over. “Teachers firehose students”, comments Pamela. “This is our cardinal mistake in education”, adds the astronomer. Teachers have unfortunately the habit to talk at students, in other…