"Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough."
- Richard P. Feynman
#Quote #RichardPFeynman

love teaching #PrimaryScience

thanks for finding me! hugs!

. There are not a lot of really good K through 12 science classes….Especially in the K through 8 grades. I blew through basic chemistry in the eighth grade, and I was reading an organic chem book that my teacher gave me. I actually found it quite simple, but when I got to high school, there was no one there to teach me I also excelled at math and physics, and there was nothing in high school to challenge me other than some basic math and physics classes.

I miss this guy.

i like that very much

One could say the same for art.

Check out my #CarlSagan #anagram #tribute

That’s actually true of creativity in general.

#CarlSagan was a hero of mine
In the 70s I lived on a large commune in the hills near NASA Ames. One of us worked there under Dr Sagan making a stereo map of Mars from Mariner 9 photos

Never one to turn down an audience he brought his slideshow (the bones of Cosmos) up the mountain and gave 150 hippies a tour of the Universe projected on a pair of white sheets!

It was truly awesome ✨ 🚀🪐
#Science #Astronomy #Mars

I lost my love of science at high school and it took a decade to rediscover it

@Romston some are so bad at math that they become science-fiction writers instead.

...while some of them will become postdoctoral researchers and will get equally pissed off by the system.

Oh how the world misses Carl and his wisdom and humanity.

Never a truer statement has been said about my experience with #Science. Sigh. I vowed never to take another Science class after I finished High School (Thanks #MarpleNewtown !!) and now at age 63 I consume more scientific journals than my doctors. All due to on-the-job-training in medical research.

So sad it had to be this way.

#hEDS

Hi, your account sounds interesting., May I make a friendly suggestion? Could you put your hashtags in camel case (think some call it Pascal case)? That is, capitalize first letter of each word in hashtags? That way sight reader software can read it. The visually impaired cam know what’s in your bio and posts.

I learned this since coming to Mastodon.

It's a shame that so many people thinks "science" is useless when they spend their lives using things built through science! 🙄

@Melzpetpals so true, isn't it?!

What I wonder is WHEN people become anti-science. I see parents and maybe even schools discouraging this wonder and enthusiasm. I wonder if it starts in first grade, second grade, kindergarten?

You have my 👍 and respect.
Keep on doing the good stuff. 💚

This is a wonderful sentiment! Carl was my childhood hero growing up!

Not so much best as aggressively *poke* out through negative reinforcement agency...

Now mathematics? We absolutely SMASH that out of all the most resilient children, for absolutely no reason other than most of the competent mathematics teachers have no idea other than "luck" as to how they learned it. And they fail every, single, student, even the gifted ones.

What happens? Fear of asking a stupid question, fear of being laughed at or the teacher gets irritated because they don't know the answer(s)?

Kids are also great writers & artists. If we were better at combining art & writing with science, we'd have a far greater chance of healing our planet @openscience

Carl was a brilliant man.

Somehow curiosity gets knocked out of so many people/children!

Yes!!

One just cannot repeat this quote often enough.

Posting stuff about Carl Sagan earns you an instant follow. Thank you!

While Carl Sagan is admittedly one of the few brilliant minds of our time, this quote has a big black hole in it. Kids have been taught science since elementary up until they reach university ... or all through our life, for that matter. Some kids are just not into it and would rather pursue something else. Remember, you can lead a horse to water but ...

boosting with pleasure as I love Carl Sagan.

All jokes aside I was born disabled with low vision (cataracts at birth). I managed to motivate myself and ignore my disability all my life up until I was 40. I coded in 10 languages, wrote music, did 3D animations, all self taught before Google existed mind you. I was even a Kung Fu instructor. Then I got assaulted several times in Canada and authorities labelled me a threat in a newspaper even, despite me being a victim and never doing anything wrong. It was all beaten out of me.

See: Gatto, "Against School". It breaks down the how and why we brutalize the curiosity out of our children.

And certain ones decide to reject #Science and become Republicans.

It's true. Scientific education is lacking in public education. It isn't always taught with the curious excitement that drives creatives to make discoveries.