Thursday, October 9, 2014

A Call for a Return to the Bunsen Burners

The push for STEM and concern for the state of science and math education in the is serious and perhaps well founded. But maybe our concern about falling behind is a little overblown... or at least not new.




(from a book about teenage culture in the 1950s)

1 comment:

  1. Friedman uses this example in "The World is Flat". He thinks the US was losing its technological edge in the 50s. What changed it? SPUTNIK! And the "moon shot" of the 1960s. So he would have agreed with a mid-50s Bunsen burner analogy.

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