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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
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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I got most of my basic science education through media and outside reading rather than through the classes. One anecdote I remember: when I was in my early school years it was during the time results were first coming in from the Voyager probes, so the information in the text books being used to teach about the solar system were already outdated. The teacher I had at that time (some time between around 3rd and 6th grade) would ask me a question (such as how many moons Jupiter was known to have) and if my answer disagreed with the answer that was printed in her teacher's edition textbook, would mark out the textbook answer and put in mine.
