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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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Richelle Sparrow

@gojonnes
The sense of #curiosity is killed in elementary school. By the time I would see them in secondary school, it is mostly gone. How/why?

1) #Classroom management seeks to minimize distractions from learning. Sitting down and shutting up are the expectations. Questions disrupt the flow of the approved lessons.

2) Consider the role of standardized (state) testing.
Having a correct answer is the school's goal to avoid sanctions. No room for speculation.