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This morning, we talked about the truth in science with a lower case t. Our classrooms will be environments for learning if we open the conversation to include our students and use all their comments to construct of a summary of our observations. The facts as stated in textbooks are the more global summaries of the observations of many, but no more valid than the summaries we construct in class with our students. Together, we will compare our summaries with the global summaries to find the truth at that time.

How ironic that later today I will be tutoring a student preparing to take an standardized entrance exam for graduate school. The test is all about facts and applying facts. There is only one answer.