Research shows it’s the freedom to exercise curiosity that, through history, has underpinned new learning, critical thinking and reasoning and has contributed to significant social and scientific progress
I’ll admit without shame that I am a big fan of American astrophysicist, author and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson.
“However,” Tyson went on to advise, “this curiosity can be diminished by the educational system that teaches to tests instead of making children excited to learn.” According to research, it’s the satisfaction derived from being free to explore. It is the freedom to exercise curiosity that, through history, has underpinned new learning, critical thinking and reasoning and has contributed to significant social and scientific progress.
In 1922, that curiosity was rewarded when diabetic patients who received insulin shots recovered from comas, resumed eating carbohydrates and found they had been given a new lease on life. In fact, it is curiosity that is at the heart of early learning and later develops into lifelong learning. There is a mountain of research suggesting that intellectual curiosity has as much if not more of an impact on performance in school than “hard work.”Other studies have found that students who were curious about a topic retained what they learned about that topic for longer periods of time.
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