• Question: Why do you enjoy learning about/teaching science?

    Asked by 284expd37 to Sheona, Craig, Flavia, Giuditta, Jack on 7 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by flosmith, 955expd39, sophieella2004, GIPW.
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      Jack Carlyle answered on 7 Nov 2015:

      The world and the universe absolutely fascinate me, learning about anything makes me happy – but I guess space is probably my favourite thing to learn about. I’m not sure why, probably because it’s what we know the least about! The thing I love most about teaching, though, is seeing the look on people’s faces when they realise something amazing. Knowledge is power!

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      Flavia de Almeida Dias answered on 7 Nov 2015:

      Hello!

      I think learning about science and how the Universe works is just part of me – since a very young age, I was curious to know how stuff works, why the sky is blue, what are all those shiny dots in the night sky, where do they go when is day time, why is the microwave heating my food so much faster, where all the yellow Lego bricks go… And I took my curiosity about the world into my professional career.

      Teaching science is something more recent. I think teaching makes me have a different perspective on the subject than I did when I was learning as a student – sometimes a question will make me think about some caveat I have never really pondered about, and sometimes trying to make things which are complex understandable for non specialist people makes me learn the subject in great depth – you need to know something very well to be able to explain it in simple terms and still been correct!

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      Craig Bull answered on 8 Nov 2015:

      Since I was a child I was fascinated as to how things work – I spent a large amount of time taking things apart and “trying” to put them back together again – this often led to being in trouble but I was curious and this is what being scientist is all about curiosity and is that what I enjoy I enjoy learning how and why things work.

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      Giuditta Perversi answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      I think that the most fascinating thing in scientific subject for me is the way in which everything is profoundly interconnected and somehow always relevant to you.

      When you just see equations and weirdly written paragraphs on a page, it might look like you just need to suffer through them and get a grip on them, but if you stop just for a second it’s almost weird how you can go from your personal scale (how do you breathe as a human being, for example) to the biggest scale possible (how was oxygen created in the Universe, how was the Universe born) in one uninterrupted flow.

      Let’s say that science has its way of making me feel really small and a part that clicks in something bigger at the same time, and I try to convey this feeling every time I teach to someone else!

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