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Date: 2005-03-04 07:44 pm (UTC)*curtsies and blushes* Thank you. To defend the exam-based approach, 5Cs at GCSE are actually rewarded more in society than skills like scientific literacy. So if education is preparing pupils for the 'entry requirements' of further study or membership of society, there's some excuse. (Yes, I can see the flaw there.)
Science as gnosticism - Mm, nice way of phrasing it.
My favourite example of this is differentiation and other basic calculus. The first few rules are no more difficult than Yr 7/8 stuff, yet it's often portrayed as a membership card for A-Level mathematics, the highest-of-the-high when you're starting sixth form. (I wouldn't mind if the average A-Level student understood the concepts/proof, but they don't.)