Scientist Craig Venter, ruminating on the learning of science for children makes a more generalisable comment: "teaching them in place of memorization, to explore, challenge, and problem solve in an attempt to understand the world around them, and most especially the world they cannot 'see' or feel directly."
It sounds remarkably like a theological training brief.
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Nous like scouse or French -oui? We wee whee all the way ... to mind us a bunch of thunks. Too much information? How could that be?
22 December 2007
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