Re: Chemistry Set

Posted by Deutz Lover on December 18, 2015 at 22:01:31 from (70.193.130.91):

In Reply to: Chemistry Set posted by JimS on December 18, 2015 at 10:21:08:

I remember my brother and I had a Lionel/Porter chemistry set.

We had a hobby shop downtown that had it all from model airplanes to you name it. Of course I had to buy a Pyrex retort like you see in the old alchemist drawings.

The rest of this is over the top so you may choose to disregard my standing on a soapbox.

Children are overly protected at one area and don't get to make even the simplest of biological and chemical observations other than read about it. How are they to get anything out of life other than to be turned into drones rather than thinkers. One thing you are all talking about is the most important: "memories". Memories of things you did personally. Can you not visualize those events even if they were sometimes "experiments in error".

Note: yes, I substituted error for terror.

Now the memories are of social media, hive mentality, and how many points scored in an Xbox game rather than something you explored yourself. And yet we have Zero Tolerance which means you both get expelled even if you are defending yourself. Administrators now don't sort out the truth, they play spin doctor. This is a poor replacement for common sense.

Common sense at least in this area is something you learn if you survive your junior chemist years and gain knowledge and experience. Louis Pasteur once said more of less "chance favors the prepared mind". So where is the prepared mind?

I feel much of this is the result a few groups of social engineers/politicians who think they know what is best for everyone. Forget what Thomas Jefferson and the "Founding Fathers" thought.

To me there are similar losses with expressions like clockwise, halfpast or quarter till, replacing and dumbing down rather than incorporating.

Heaven forbid you think about this. The "thought police" will be all over you".

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