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Education has always had a problem with technology

A freshman chemistry student in 1964, I learned that the pH meter was a tool for graduate students. We did simple pH determinations by titration. The reasoning? In the "real world" such instruments might not be available. Of course, in the real world such instruments were and are readily available. Even a modest sized chemical operation will now have instruments available that were rare and expensive; the FTIR, AA, GCMS are examples.

I suspect the real reason the insturments were hard to come by in 1964 was that even in the midst of the space race/Russians are technically superior era that science education was underfunded. I further suspect that even with computers available in the classroom that the real problem is that the educators are themselves largely uneducated. Again the same reason: too little funding and education at the college level. But, hey--go Mighty MO. No funds shortage there.

Posted by: Bill4   Posted on: 01/07/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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