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To: Saturn V who wrote (176683)	1/27/2004 4:07:45 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 186894

RE:"Her back up plan is to do Law if she cant make it into Med School." What a terrible back up...

To: Saturn V who wrote (176683)	1/28/2004 5:50:09 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 186894

OT Hi Saturn, RE: " My daughter is very good at Math and Computer software. But she was intimidated by Physics, and wants to avoid Engineering. She is also very good at Chemistry and Biology and would like to take up Medicine. Her back up plan is to do Law if she cant make it into Med School." Sounds like she's good at so much, that she'll be fine. They should really have a physics lab around grade 2, so kids can get exposure to it. They say guys do better in physics for several reasons, their games give them more exposure to aspects of physics at an early age, giving them that extra leg up in the confidence. Some of my motion games as a kid really, really helped me in college physics. It was stuff I could sense from my memories. But the instructor had these really outdated applications that weren't exciting, compared to what today's examples could be. My high school physics instructor had much funner examples and she was a better communicator (story teller) than my college physics professor whose voice sounded like a machine gun - how anyone can take an interesting topic like physics and butcher it, is beyond me. RE: " Regarding the "school culture", the math phobia was unique to girls in her class. " In some schools in foreign countries, girls will attend an all-girl school. Studies show girls do better in math when in an all-girl school, because they aren't defocusing their energies onto social pressures. RE: " This media culture does not value academic excellence like the Confucian philosophy does." Yes, and that attitude has a cost to our country. RE: " However I am confident that the American system will respond to the challenges posed by the Global Economy. ...more responsive than Europe or Japan. There are burdened by History, and stay in the denial mode too long, while the US is quick to embrace the Brave New World." So true. RE: " There is a Global Tectonic Change due to the dramatic increase in literacy and education levels in the major population centers of China and India. This will put pressure on wages and skills needed." Not sure people get what it means to have billions of middle class come on-line. Wage growth < investment growth. I think our country really needs to get more people into investments at an earlier age. RE: " America will continue to be the fountion of innovation, and will lead the way to the future, whatever it may be." Not unless we pump more money into university RND. More RND, new innovation = higher wages. Simple formula. Regards, Amy J