tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post73096932629399969..comments2024-03-21T05:30:03.220-04:00Comments on Science teacher: Dollars and sensedoylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12901661320505882735noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-26540911402844131342009-08-24T12:01:40.776-04:002009-08-24T12:01:40.776-04:00Dear Joel,
Thanks for the words.
We discuss nat...Dear Joel,<br /><br />Thanks for the words. <br /><br />We discuss natural limits in biology class, but I am not sure the students get the connection to the economy, and when I was 14 years old, I doubt I'd have cared about the connection anyway.<br /><br />To be fair, many (most?) of the adults raising our children either don't get the connection, or believe some <i>deus ex machina</i> is going to come down and save the day, or maybe just don't think about these things at all. I can hardly blame children for failing to pick up what their elders refuse to see.doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901661320505882735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-88562147664892109742009-08-23T20:29:34.148-04:002009-08-23T20:29:34.148-04:00Totally agree. There's no question that our e...Totally agree. There's no question that <a href="http://teachingtechnically.blogspot.com/2008/10/speaking-of-oil.html" rel="nofollow">our economy is unsustainable.</a> It worries me when I hear people advocating the wasting of resources to boost the economy. When it comes down to it, our economic growth is based on natural resources. Economics is taught too often in the abstract. Students see the dollars but not the real resources they represent. Economic education should be about those real resources, not dollars and cents.Joelhttp://teachingtechnically.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-37121877198456665772009-08-20T08:03:41.987-04:002009-08-20T08:03:41.987-04:00Dear Kathryn,
I suspect that "our economy&qu...Dear Kathryn,<br /><br />I suspect that "our economy" may ultimately be unsustainable, and the current version, dependent on seeing Americans as "consumers", is not healthy for our land base.<br /><br />When Americans started saving again this year, some professional economists expressed concern that this might stall the "recovery."<br /><br />At any rate, the adage may come off trite, but I agree it's essential. (That I spend any time on here, though, only proves I do not practice it.)doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12901661320505882735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956989639073843954.post-79736806448132776932009-08-19T22:30:52.453-04:002009-08-19T22:30:52.453-04:00Sometimes your blog convinces me that I should nev...Sometimes your blog convinces me that I should never publish another keystroke. I don't spend much - due to necessity as much as desire. I wonder often about what would happen to our economy if people lived simply so that others could simply live - old and trite but essential.Kathryn Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16757414380685368592noreply@blogger.com