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Gustavo Ogasawara Jun 28, 2023

"You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of #science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions. They ask, "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." #CarlSagan

(#Book: #Conversations with Carl Sagan)

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Calm, considering

@gojonnes
Never ignore the factor of exhausted parents. My 6 year old can fire off questions like a machine gun. And, of course, the curiosity and wonder are magnificent.
But parents are human. They have finite energy reserves.

Saying that: watching The Chicks play Glastonbury on TV at the weekend, she asked about the "drum guitar" being played by one of the musicians.

It was a banjo.