Bug#361418: Debian menu and the Apps/Science section

[Thomas Walter <t.walter@nefkom.net>]

Hello,

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 17:57, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> I received this message after I answered Bill Allombert. 
> 
> The list below is a reasonable one, when "Bio" is written in full "Biology" 
> and "medicine" is added; medicine is largely biology but with special needs.
> 
> I disagree with the distinction science/education. Scientific education is 
> science, or ideally it should be. Most discoveries spring from students doing 
> a thesis work, which is education. Arrhenius set the a large section of the 
> basis of chemistry (and thereby of biology chemistry agronomy etc etc) while 
> a student under education (although - being too much ahead of the times - he 
> was blamed for his ideas).
> 
Reading your answer I think I see our small differences in opinion:
Doing a thesis is based on "Research" and done in an "Research
Environment" ==> Science.  The thesis itself becomes part of the big
knowledge pool and improves the wisdom available.

Education, at least from my point of view, is more you do in schools
and/or by learning.
More something like:
one learns how to do something.  How to multiply, what is and how to do
analysis or geometry, what happens in a flower, what are the basic
components of a cell, basic elements and reactions in chemistry,
principls of mechanics/optics/electronics.

I think if one looks from a single users, then everything could be put
under education because you learn always or you are lost.

> Surely what I am saying is not exhaustive. It is a matter to think about for a 
> while. I am answering while doing chemistry, thus short of time.
> 
[snip]

Kind Regards,
Thomas