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{SPEAKER name="Elizabeth Drews"} and it's interesting, too, although there has seemingly, it's been felt that there was a lot of ignorance about
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what scientists do, that scientists were queer and not quite human
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and yet when we have asked our bright children
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do they want to be scientists, yes, and do they know what scientists do, certainly
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they know. They can tell you exactly how many years of college
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it takes to be a nuclear physicist and just what kind of courses you're going to have to take.
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There's, this unclearness is not in the minds of this group of children.
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Perhaps we could take our children who are below average and
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ability and ask them about a scientist and come up with some very strange ideas
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not true of our top five, or then, or maybe even fifteen percent.
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They know and they identify with the so-called egghead
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if we want to call a scientist that.
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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Well, thank goodness for eggheads Dr. Drews.
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and I think this is a most encouraging report.
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that you give us from this experiment that you've undertaken over a period
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of years here in the Lansing region of Michigan.
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Thank yuo very much. Our Adventures in Science guest today
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has been Dr. Elizabeth Drews, Associate Professor of Education of Michigan State University.
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