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U.S. Presidential Candidates Answer ScienceDebate 2016 Questions

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday September 14 2016, @01:07PM   Printer-friendly
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slash2phar writes:

Three of the four major candidates for United States president have responded to America's Top 20 Presidential Science, Engineering, Technology, Health and Environmental Questions. The nonprofit advocacy group ScienceDebate.org has posted their responses online. Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Jill Stein had all responded as of press time, and the group was awaiting responses from Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @10:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @10:49PM (#402044)

    I would be in favor of free higher education on the condition that we require the colleges and universities that qualify to have extremely high standards; nothing like what we have now where just about any know-nothing loser who has just enough motivation to get through a few years of schooling can get a degree. The gap between the top schools and the mediocre and worst schools should not be so tremendously large.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @01:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15 2016, @01:35AM (#402099)

    If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

    - Ralph Waldo Emerson