Do you think egypian kids are taught that pluto is no longer a planet?

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Psycho

def. not, I remember an article about Huda Sha'rawi, in the middle you could read "She works currently at Yadayada", then a little sentence at the end of the article with the date she died.
They don't develop the curriculum and even when they do, they do it wrong.
BTW, Pluto is not a Moon !...it's a dwarf planet like Eris and Ceres.

Â¸Â¸.â€¢*Â´`*â™¥ Farah Â¸Â¸.â€¢*Â´`*â™¥

Ya bnty albik abyad! Ya3ny hiya gat 3ala di bas?! I swear wallahi some of the library books in the university date back to when it was first opened! And some of the mentalities date back even farther than that! *sigh* No comment!

I miss rana batatis! Where did she go?!

last pharaoh

i doubt that theire teachers know that

@ rana : oh really it still sa3'era !!

hasafer

as long as we have this corrupted military government , there will be no improvement .
my only wish is to get rid of them and get back our beloved lands.

Kalooka

i believe that there's someone out there do teach the kids that pluto is no longer a planet but what the heck it's a piece of information, what really is needed is to teach them how to think and how to research, right? Rana (have no clue) How are you girl?! :-)

PAK ASIANS

Yes ! soppose to be, because it is now a scienfic fact.

Zoser

Rana : I hope you are well,
There is lots of discussions here these days about the education in Egypt, and a lot criticize it, you know me I always criticize things in Egypt, but I assure to you that the information in our education is more than good , one of the best, The problem is in the system , the methods, and sorry to say it ,' the students',,

THE-GREEN-VISITOR

Don't think so, Egyptian education system and even the courses contain horrible mistakes, I found out lately.

Gigi (i wish i could)

i was taught that pluto was the ninth planet in school,(manhag) ..but i knew later that pluto is a moon from a teacher

@ rana mateksefeneeesh

Adham 1910

what do u mean begad?
ya3ni pluto dah eah zrofo i know it is a dog of mekky

dr ~alzheimer

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If Pluto's Not a Planet, Is Ketchup a Vegetable, a Fetus a Person, or Same-Sex Marriage an Oxymoron? Natural Kinds in Science and Law
By MICHAEL C. DORF
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Last week the International Astronomical Union adopted a scientific definition of the term "planet" that leaves Pluto out in the cold. Demoted from its exalted place in our solar system, Pluto now joins a handful of other small distant objects to be denoted "planetary dwarves." (No, there aren't seven of them, and please, no jokes about my own name.)

The astronomers' decision was apparently difficult. Before the new definition was adopted, a pro-Pluto faction had proposed an alternative that would have accorded planetary status to any object orbiting the sun with sufficient gravity to pull itself into the shape of a sphere. That definition would have saved Pluto, but at the cost of defining dozens of additional objects, including some large asteroids, as planets. No doubt, millions of schoolchildren breathed a sigh of relief that they would not be required to learn the names of all these celestial spheres.

Meanwhile, those of us who are neither astronomers nor schoolchildren may find the Plutonic controversy, at best, amusing. Why should scientists care whether anyone attaches the label "planet" to Pluto or any other object? As Shakespeare might have said, a planet by any other name would go 'round the sun.

Indeed, the focus on labels seems especially odd for modern scientists, for it appears to mistake an arbitrary (if useful) category constructed by human beings, for a "natural kind"--a grouping with a sharp boundary determined by nature itself. Moreover, as I shall explain, philosophers debate whether the concept of "natural kind" itself makes any sense.

Yet, as I shall also explain, in life and especially in law, we frequently act as though the definitions we give to various words--words like "vegetable," "person," and "marriage"--are more than matters of mere convention. Can we make sense of this practice without resorting to the contested notion of natural kinds?

From Plato to Pluto

Although the term "natural kind" first appears in modern philosophy, it has roots in the works of the ancient Greeks. Plato believed that the world we experience is but an imperfect manifestation of an ideal world, filled with ideal "forms." The chair on which you sit is a material approximation of the ideal form of chair, the cup from which you drink an approximation of the ideal cup, and so forth.

Plato famously illustrated his conception of an ideal world in the Allegory of the Cave (in Book VII of The Republic), in which people seated in a cave can only view shadows on the wall, projected by lighted objects behind them. They understandably mistake the shadows for real things. These troglodytes, in Plato's allegory, represent all of us, able to see only shadows of the truth, which we mistake for reality.

The modern notion of "natural kinds" differs from Plato's forms in two important respects. First, modern philosophers do not typically share Plato's quasi-mystical conception of the forms, which, for him, appear to have a reality beyond their conceptual content. Second, no one today contends that every category is a natural kind. Chairs, cups, notebook computers, and other human artifacts are recognized as just that: artificial creations of human beings, not natural kinds. Philosophers, accordingly, do not debate whether a bean bag chair is "really" a chair, except to the extent that they aim to clarify how English speakers in a particular community use the word "chair."

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Mukhaadarad!

Many scientists beleive that pluto is not planet because of it's most eccentric orbit of all the planets in the solar system. The orbit draws within the orbit of Neptune, as can be seen in this drawing, making Pluto the 8th planet rather than the 9th planet for roughly 20 years at a time. Pluto was the 8th planet from January 1979 to February 1999. Neptune is now the 9th planet for over 200 years!
the other thing which has questioned pluto is new definition which defines a planet as an object that orbits the sun and is large enough to have become round due to the force of its own gravity. In addition, a planet has to dominate the neighborhood around its orbit, and pluto doesn't. Bodies that dominate their neighborhoods, "sweep up" asteroids, comets, and other debris, clearing a path along their orbits. By contrast, Pluto's orbit is somewhat untidy.
to answer the question, not only in egypty many countries around the world (including britian and united states) are taught in schools that pluto isn't a planet at all. i remember the time i was doing my GCSEs in britian reading two different physics books from two different exam boards (Edexel and IQA) one say pluto is a planet and the other say it isn't accourding to the definition.

Arabian Dune

Isn't pluto that walt disney cartoon character, is there any other?? i'm confused.
peace to all.

Cutie Toty (Hakuna Matata)

PLUTO
is a planet in our solar system and thier number was mention in the holy QURA'AN

Ultra N

No, I doubt that knowledge has reached Egypt yet. Maybe in about 50 years, when they get new textbooks...

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