What a lovely article: jsomers.net/i-should-have-. My school experiences with bio were similar: "astonishing facts were presented without astonishment.” A great tour through more stirring approaches to the subject, centered on great questions, like “What is the bandwidth of a cell?"
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Also enjoyed the comments on learning: “…textbooks never worked; it all only started to click when I started to do little projects for myself. The project wasn’t just motivation but an organizing principle, a magnet to arrange the random iron filings I picked up along the way."
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Completely agree, thanks for sharing. The tools for teaching are perhaps one of the reasons this is done poorly (keeping the awe is teaching biology). This is another fantastic tangent on the topic
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Very interesting. There is also the historical wonder: imagine living when we had no idea what anything was made of, how we were conceived, why we get sick, why we breathe, eat, menstruate. How we see or hear, what blood is for. It’s a world of fear & confusion, and very recent!
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