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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: alt.sci.planetary
- Subject: Re: Star Trek teaching
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 20:41:02 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- In article <1993Jan23.190310.15506@athena.mit.edu>, wools@athena.mit.edu (Aaron M Woolsey) writes:
- >Some good scifi staples for high school students are probably Bradbury's
- >"Martian Chronicles" and "R is for Rocket".
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- Sarcasm ON:
-
- Right. Teach 'em science using Bradbury's mystical bullshit and ubiquitous
- sacrifice of anything resembling fact in favor of style.
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- Sarcasm OFF.
-
- Question: What's your major, literature? If you advocate using Bradbury to
- help teach science, you pretty clearly know nothing about science.
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