Michio Kaku He is one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists of today, specialized in string theory, related to the universities of Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton and New York, where he is Professor of Theoretical Physics. Kaku is also the author of several books and a scientific popularizer of enormous charisma.
In this video Kaku explains that we are born naturally being scientists. Children are fascinated by Nature and want to experiment with it and understand it. However, it indicates that, After passing through primary and secondary school, his curiosity dies crushed.
He considers that the great failure is the insistence on the memorization of figures and data, when that is not, in any way, Science. That crush natural curiosity that young children demonstrated by natural processes.
He tells us, in addition, an anecdote that considers the most humiliating fact of his life: his little daughter asked, horrified, the reason that led him to become a scientist, because he had ended up tired of studying by heart all the names and characteristics of the minerals for a test.
In Babies and more We have talked about how to encourage interest in the science of our children, with experiments and a lot of freedom, but also in this second part of the problem, the failures of the educational system that, as Kaku says, could be crushing children's scientific curiosity. Perhaps it is that our educational system is anachronistic.
I completely agree with Kaku with his perception that the memorial education system crushes curiosity and I'm glad to read that one of the brightest minds of our times sees it this way. What do you think?
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