posted on 31 October 2009 09:17
Marcus Chown says (rightly I believe) that school science can easily turn children off the subject. Why? Because it's taught in order: principles first, followed by awe and wonder. And we spend so much time on the principles that the exciting bits become the exception or the ommitted. Chown uses cool facts to engage - like: if we ignore all the space in the bits that make us up, then the whole human race would fit in a sugar cube. Great way to begin a lesson.
If we want scientists, we must show Science to be the fanastical thing it is!