Dear Users, Visitors, Teachers and Students,
I thank you for using and visiting this blog, Chemistry Basics.
I would like to talk briefly about Curiosity.
As explained in the first post, Learning Chemistry, A Practical Approach, I explained the methodology adopted, that consists of asking question(s) about a principle to raise your curiosity. To let you think and search for solution(s), before I send the answers. This is because I am convinced that:
Curiosity >>> Questions & Research >>> Discovery & Knowledge.
I invite you to read the following statements from two eminent persons:
Albert Einstein, nominated by Time Magazine (1999) the most important person of the 20th Century, said:
“I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.”
And John Spencer, former middle school teacher and college professor, wrote:
“When students are able to ask their own questions, they can chase their curiosity and tap into their own interests. They can build on their prior knowledge and build a bridge to new information that they are analyzing. As they ask questions, this will ultimately fuel their research process in the next phase, which will, in turn, provide the background knowledge and inspiration for their ideation of their product. …. I want classrooms to be bastions of creativity and wonder. I want to see students chasing their curiosity and researching answers. I love what happens when students solve problems that don’t have easy answers; when they become builders and engineers and authors and scientists and historians bent on finding the truth. And yet, this doesn’t always happen in school. Often, we stick too tightly to curriculum maps and deadlines and students learn to value compliance above empowerment. And the results is lack of natural curiosity.”