Teaching Science and Math in Schools
Posted : April 27, 2007 at 10:28 am [America/Los_Angeles]
If we want our kids to learn science, we can’t treat science as this boring or intimidating thing. “We have to remind our kids … that a math equation or a scientific formula is just a brush stroke the good Lord uses to paint one of the wonders of nature,” Mr. Isaacson said, “and we should look at it as being as beautiful as art or literature or music.” My favorite Einstein quotation is that “imagination is more important than knowledge.” A society that restricts imagination is unlikely to produce many Einsteins — no matter how many educated people it has. But a society that does not stimulate imagination when it comes to science and math won’t either — no matter how much freedom it has.
- Thomas Friedman, “China Needs an Einstein. So Do We.”
Very well said.
- Anand
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