May 25, 2005

Upstream Media - here

ReadIf I were an American manufacturer, I would rather employ a team of scientists and engineers that individually graduated from American colleges and whose members are entrepreneurial. Progress in commercial product development is not just a matter of individual competence in surviving formal education, based mainly on skill in mathematics. Gary North
ThisONRRI applies small science to building community through the development of youth. The mind-numbing dog and pony approach to edjutainment is incapable of producing mass reasoned people. Research directed learning environments provide hands-on opportunity to put thought back into the learning process - survival skills are quite motivational. Small science requires involvement, involvement creates interest, interest begets query, questions generate hypotheses (which are usually wrong!) and what happens happens, is observed and dutifully recorded with no intentional bias. A new hypothesis is generated and - Truth rules ... Novel concept.

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