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March-April 2011
Volume 99, Number 2
Page 101
DOI: 10.1511/2011.89.101
To the Editors:
In response to “The 95 Percent Solution” by John H. Falk and Lynn Dierking (November–December), I have had the good fortune to spend a large part of my retirement babysitting my young, twin granddaughters. I have been amazed to watch their scientific experiments—testing the properties of various materials, exploring how those materials fit with other materials, picking up insects and examining them, on and on. They start, design and carry out these experiments on their own initiative. One possible conclusion to be drawn from the statistics in Drs. Falk’s and Dierking’s article is that it takes a number of years for the public school system to eliminate the early and natural scientific approach with which we are all endowed.
Paul Showalter
Harrisburg, PA
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