carl sagan on the loss of childhood curiosity between kindergarten and 12th grad
12 years of teaching kids what to think instead of how to think, speedrun any%
"You go talk to kindergarteners or first grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts. And 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 the 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." ~ Carl Sagan
