Michael,
Don't blame the teachers, they only have to use such texts. School
texts are written by an anonymous melange of media officers, "senior
educators" and academics. My former wife regularly expressed her
exasperation at the content of texts she was required to use.
Unfortunately the situation is frequently no better in the area of
tertiary education. I remember some of my texts giving me a laugh.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 27/02/2007, at 10:44 AM, Michael Tarburton wrote:
So although it appears we cannot be sure how many bird watchers there
are in Australia, it is clear that as we are not getting through to
our teachers that publish text books. There are either not enough of
us or we are not doing as much as we can to educate our society on
our native birds.
The authors of this current text actually make many false
statements. Just one more example relating to birds follows.
They claim that “the fossil record also gives evidence that species
have changed over time, and may show how new species arose.” They use
Archaeopteryx as an example and claim that its morphology has allowed
scientists to deduce “that birds have evolved from a dinosaur ancestor.”
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