Wednesday 28 June 2023

Double Windmill

 

“If you go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions: ‘What is a dream?’ ‘Why do we have toes?’ ‘Why is the moon round?’ ‘What is the birthday of the world?’ ‘Why is grass green?’ These are profound, important questions. They just bubble right out of them. You go talk to 12th graders and there's none of that. They've become incurious. Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade.” – Carl Sagan

“There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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