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No need to learn ‘dead white dudes’ names’: chemistry lecture at Kennesaw State University– www.thecollegefix.com
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Students studying chemistry at a public university in Georgia were recently instructed that it is unnecessary to memorize the names of various laws named after deceased white, male scientists.

Lecturer Rebekah Cordeiro told her chemistry class Oct. 2 that, under her pedagogy, she does not prioritize learning the names of laws named after white men because it “doesn’t matter,” according to an audio clip of the comment provided exclusively to The College Fix this week.

“The last few minutes of class I am going to talk about a bunch of different laws,” Cordeiro said. “OK, um, here’s the thing about the way that I am going to teach this, it’s a little bit different from the slides and the textbooks, is that — I don’t care if you know the name of all of these different equations.”

“I am not going to ask you, ‘Which one is Boyle’s Law?’ ‘Which one is Charles’s law?’ Because I don’t think it’s very important for you to know all these dead white dudes’ names like that, it doesn’t matter,” she said. “What matters is the relationship between the variables, that you understand the relationship, and that you can use these laws in the math.”