Why Science Doesn't Have to be Your Favorite Subject to Understand It
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Imagine you are back in your high school biology classroom.
Allow yourself to take in your surroundings.
What kind of desk do you have? Is your chair uncomfortable? How is the room set up? And most importantly, what is your teacher like?
If you had a grueling experience then you aren’t alone. For many it was not what they’d call fun.
Most people could probably come up with a laundry list of other things they’d have preferred to have done over sitting for hours and hours listening to lessons in that biology classroom.
If that was the end of your experience with science, or at least biology, then you may have been left with a rather bitter taste in your mouth.
And that wasn’t just from the formaldehyde which preserved the frogs that you dissected.
It’s time to wash your mouth out and put all that behind you.
Today starts a new chapter and I’m here to tell you that you can understand science even if it is not your favorite subject and never was.
It can even be fun.
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Wait, did I say that science can be fun?
I’m a rare breed that looks back fondly on my high school biology class. In fact, it spawned my love for science and the 20 year career that followed.
But, you don’t have to be passionate about science to have fun learning it and I’m going to show you how.
Let’s quickly go back to that high school biology classroom.
Yeah, I know that I said to put it behind us and I promise that we will but, I want to use it for one more point.
The way that science is usually presented makes it harder to understand. Scientists have a habit of talking in big, technical terms as opposed to simplifying what they are trying to say.
What we, and I say that as a scientist, need to learn is to communicate this information in a better way.
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I might be in the wrong place. I was into science from 1st grade onward. The problem with 10th grade Biology was needing to speak out against the theory of evolution, and being the only one in the class to do that. I was not an apologist for creationism at that age, but I knew that what was being taught was not good science. Still, that class (in 1966) is where I was introduced to biochemistry, a subject that I have continued to study ever since, and oh was that valuable over the past few years.
My high school biology teacher, Mr. Hilbert made science very fun. I still remember the mitosis dance he taught us. 💃🤗♥️
I just bought into evolution etc. . I did not know better. I’m happy I paid attention because in the future I began questioning what I was taught.
Thank you for your wonderful inspiration!