Comments on: What Is Science? http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/01/17/what-is-science/ Science in Canada: Issues affecting trainees Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:01:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fred http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/01/17/what-is-science/comment-page-1/#comment-407 Fred Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:16:06 +0000 http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/?p=190#comment-407 I whole-heartedly agree with this post. It's sad that undergraduate science education has been perverted to be a glorified sausage machine. I actually spent quite some time as an undergrad in student government lobbying deans to review curricula with these same arguments in mind. The greater issue is, however, that science undergrads seem to be content or even happy with the predictable but mind-numbing memorization-regurgitation cycle. Whatever happened to attending university for self-betterment or to engage in intellectual discourse? Such concepts are lost on most of today's students. I whole-heartedly agree with this post. It’s sad that undergraduate science education has been perverted to be a glorified sausage machine. I actually spent quite some time as an undergrad in student government lobbying deans to review curricula with these same arguments in mind. The greater issue is, however, that science undergrads seem to be content or even happy with the predictable but mind-numbing memorization-regurgitation cycle.

Whatever happened to attending university for self-betterment or to engage in intellectual discourse? Such concepts are lost on most of today’s students.

]]> By: Beth http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/01/17/what-is-science/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Beth Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:25:11 +0000 http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/?p=190#comment-328 A cookbook philosophy course? Yikes! Yeah, perhaps this is an issue that goes beyond the sciences... A cookbook philosophy course? Yikes! Yeah, perhaps this is an issue that goes beyond the sciences…

]]> By: Mel http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/01/17/what-is-science/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Mel Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:24:04 +0000 http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/?p=190#comment-327 I actually took a philosophy of science course in my first year of undergrad, but was disappointed because it was a cookbook philosophy course!!! i.e. you got a good mark by spouting back what the prof had lectured about. So it's not good enough just to have access to the courses that sound like they should fit the bill, courses other than the traditional science courses also need to work on getting away from the cookbook formula. I actually took a philosophy of science course in my first year of undergrad, but was disappointed because it was a cookbook philosophy course!!! i.e. you got a good mark by spouting back what the prof had lectured about. So it’s not good enough just to have access to the courses that sound like they should fit the bill, courses other than the traditional science courses also need to work on getting away from the cookbook formula.

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