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Old 04-15-2010, 01:58 PM   #55
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by DixieGal View Post
Getting back to the original post, it started me thinking about my inbred brain-dead in-laws. Throw 10 of them into a lake and you might barely have a combined educational level for 1 of them to graduate high school.

BUT... In the past few years since satellite TV made it out to the piney woods, get-togethers have changed. I overheard a pothead step nephew cousin talking about these strings that are really universes. They watch and discuss the space series, such as The Planet and The Universe. I doubt any of them could understand a chart about recessive or dominant genes, for instance, but they completely understand about evolutionary adaption to fill an ecelogic niche.

So they are well indoctrinated with popular science and have a pretty good grasp of things from watching documentary TV. So from my own observations, I would not consider this as failing to educate them about science.
It's not a bad point... but it wasn't the education system that educated them in that case... it was an entertainment TV side-effect. It's not a bad argument for rebuilding the education system to take full advantage of multimedia, though.
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