Via Photon Courier (one of the most under-appreciated blogs out there) comes this rather shocking news from the UK about the transformation of science from a classroom subject into a vehicle for political propaganda.

Blogger Melanie Phillips compares this to other subjects that have declined in Britain, including the study of languages. (Of course, I'm from the U.S., where we don't study other languages because we so often don't have to: other than Spanish in the South and French in the North/South, there's just nothing but English as far as the eye can see. [Look at a map: living in Europe would be like if I needed to learn another language to visit Nevada or Colorado. We're just spoiled here, for better and worse.])

Professor Purkinje, let me know just how things look from Cambridge: is it as bad as the News.Telegraph suggests? Will the Ghosts of Science's Past fight the trend? Phone home.

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Posted by: EdWonk at December 03, 2004 12:38 AM (NMv0e)

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