[extropy-chat] Re: Home-schooling

[Brent Neal]

 (1/21/04 17:52) Alan Eliasen <eliasen at mindspring.com> wrote:

>
>Brent Neal wrote:
>> As a case in point,
>> I will give you the University of North Carolina-Pembroke, which trains
>> people with average entrance SAT scores of less than 800 combined to be
>> teachers.
>
>    I remember getting back my GRE score report around 1993 and looking
>through some of the included analysis.  They had a breakdown of GRE
>scores by intended major and, by far, the lowest-scoring group was
>education.  That was sad, and indeed creates a self-defeating cycle.  In fact,
>the lowest 4 out of 5 scores went to education fields.
>
>
>    Dumbest:  Pre-Elementary Education
>    Smartest: Physics
>
>   I don't think our education system can be saved without enforcing higher
>standards for teachers.
>
>   So where does *your* major stack up?  :)
>

I have a Ph.D. in Physics. :P  

(Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Adhesion and Nanoindentation of Gallium Arsenide, for the curious.)


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