Forbes – Chad Orzel
“It’s not hard to get little kids interested in science, because for them, science is play. They’re using the process of scientific thinking all the time, working out how the world around them works by just trying things out– “Hey, we have this stick. I wonder what happens if we poke things with it?” Sometimes the results can be a little infuriating from the parental perspective– some of their experiments kind of try my patience– but for the kids, it’s immensely rewarding. The hard part isn’t getting kids interested in science, because when they’re young, science is fun. The tricky part is getting them to continue to see science as fun, and not burying it in formal structure and vocabulary tests. Because that sense of fun, and play, and exploration is one of the biggest factors that makes people into professional scientists.”(more)