There is a professor who is giving a free public form on Thursday night in Melbourne.
I am concerned that if the Royal Society are indeed putting their name to the event that they need to be carefull.
Melbourne University who are holding the even along with the Royal Soceity recently announced that they were reducing the number of HECS, students with Australian Full Fee paying cources at Melbourne University.
Unfortunatley the Royal Society a long time ago may not have been particularly open to 'education for all!' Rather the fees that it cost to be in the royal society 'centuries' ago were prohibitive to keep education to a few.
I am totally against this theory and I do not see how it serves, either people or country. I believe it serves only one purpose and that is what we have come to know a 'sin'.
I believe the founder of the Natural History Museum in London, of which I have never visited was a member of the Royal Soceity whose foresight was for the education of the community. Hence exhibitions have been available to the general public for years and have been greatly extended.
I believe if you go back, one of the driving forces as seen docuemented in a Royal DVD, was the Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria's husband under her eye, turned England into the steam captial of the world which was a driving force in it's economic success throughout the world.
Prince Alfred, held a Public gather in the 'Glass Palace' I believe in Hyde Park?, to show case to the public, the industrial revolution, and to educate the community about science, mechanics the works.
I am very much against the once, and hopefully long gone attitude of the Royal Society which tried to hinder education and thus progress.
I am very much against full fee paying students.
If you look at Captain Cook he got where he was, because of skill, knowledge and hard work.
He came from a farming background, and earnt a seat at anybodies table. For anyone to even question, the authority of Elizabeth Cook, who upheld her husbands work after her children 'unfortunately died', leaving only her to carry on and uphold her husbands work. It is my Granmother who lived through a war, to uphold this in my father.
It is a pity he didn't choose to marry an academic, someone who'd tried and suceeded.
I am not my father or my mother, I have largely been independant for a long time. I even sort out their disputes when I was young.
Posted on Nov 1, 2006, 6:15 AM from IP address 210.50.80.83