I would say your objections stem from an archaic way of teaching/learning science. A lot of science classes tend to go like this:
1. You're told the concept/theory.
2. You're given the mathematics for solving specific scientific equations/problems.
3. You perform basic and boring experiments where the hypothesis and steps used in the experiment come from a textbook.
In all three, you're essentially a passive witness to science. Even with 3, you're not actually engaging in the method honestly. You're just blindly following instructions to a predetermined end, one which is obvious if you pay the slightest bit of attention to what happened earlier in class.
By glossing over the process that is science, you lose the entire point of it. It might as well be a litany of dates presented in a history class. That this is just the way it is, with a little going into the 'why' of it, and almost nothing going into how we got to that current understanding.
I hated my middle, high school, and even university intro science classes because of that. They were beyond boring, and were more focused on regurgitating and memorizing old theories and formulas than the discovery process.
1. You're told the concept/theory.
2. You're given the mathematics for solving specific scientific equations/problems.
3. You perform basic and boring experiments where the hypothesis and steps used in the experiment come from a textbook.
In all three, you're essentially a passive witness to science. Even with 3, you're not actually engaging in the method honestly. You're just blindly following instructions to a predetermined end, one which is obvious if you pay the slightest bit of attention to what happened earlier in class.
By glossing over the process that is science, you lose the entire point of it. It might as well be a litany of dates presented in a history class. That this is just the way it is, with a little going into the 'why' of it, and almost nothing going into how we got to that current understanding.
I hated my middle, high school, and even university intro science classes because of that. They were beyond boring, and were more focused on regurgitating and memorizing old theories and formulas than the discovery process.
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