This afternoon was a complete bust. I taught my lessons but it was impossible to get the students to work on what they were supposed to. These were the questions they asked me this afternoon:
1) How much cobalt-60 is needed to make a nuclear bomb?
2) What is cancer? How does cancer start? Why isn't there a cure for cancer?, etc
3) "Why did some dude invent pi?"
4) How do we know that these formulas [sic] are right?
5) Why did they decide how to arrange the periodic table?
6) "Were swears the same way back when you were in high school?"
There were many other questions relating to a belief that all the sciences were a mass conspiracy that nothing was actually true. As one student put it "There is no one someone could have figure that out."
It was only Wednesday, I hate to see what they are like on Friday.
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2 comments:
Wow, you have a class full of cynics.
There's a full moon a coming..beware! I loved the..."Were swears the same way back when you were in high school?"
boy, that's student's the next Einstein...
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