“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.”
. 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.
#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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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 ...
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.
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in reply to Open Science ✅ • • •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
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in reply to Open Science ✅ • • •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?
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in reply to Open Science ✅ • • •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.
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in reply to Open Science ✅ • • •Its a good quote, but knowing my nieces, I can say that many kids are not natural scientists.
Though there are vastly more born scientists than grow up to be scientists.
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We would be happy if everyone kept in mind that science should be open to children as well.
That said, have you considered moving away from GitHub to a platform that does not deliberately lock out children?
If you need any help with that, feel free to ask!
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