Comments on: Curiosity Makes a Comeback http://www.scienceprogress.org/2009/02/curiosity-makes-a-comeback/ Progressive approaches to science policy Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:54:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Frank magyar http://www.scienceprogress.org/2009/02/curiosity-makes-a-comeback/comment-page-1/#comment-6772 Frank magyar Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:00:39 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/?p=1388#comment-6772 i was writing a college application essay and started googling "science curiosity" and this was at the top. Being 19 and looking back at my public school education, they did very little to instill a sense of curiosity into the students, which is something any successful must have. it took me a while to realize, but my curiosity has to be a motivator for learning stuff. so yeah im with obama on this one, although i doubt america, who has been making its citizens systematically dumber by the decade, will be able to follow through on making us more curious. i was writing a college application essay and started googling “science curiosity” and this was at the top. Being 19 and looking back at my public school education, they did very little to instill a sense of curiosity into the students, which is something any successful must have. it took me a while to realize, but my curiosity has to be a motivator for learning stuff. so yeah im with obama on this one, although i doubt america, who has been making its citizens systematically dumber by the decade, will be able to follow through on making us more curious.

]]> By: Ranger http://www.scienceprogress.org/2009/02/curiosity-makes-a-comeback/comment-page-1/#comment-4319 Ranger Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:21:21 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/?p=1388#comment-4319 I am curious as to why he may have coupled the word "curiosity" with the word "tolerance"? Could he have meant to say "diversity" which would be the first thing I would make a connection to with the word "tolerance". hmmm... Ranger I am curious as to why he may have coupled the word “curiosity” with the word “tolerance”?

Could he have meant to say “diversity” which would be the first thing I would make a connection to with the word “tolerance”.

hmmm…

Ranger

]]> By: Annec http://www.scienceprogress.org/2009/02/curiosity-makes-a-comeback/comment-page-1/#comment-4238 Annec Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:34:02 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/?p=1388#comment-4238 Montaigne said, 'we learn to live, and limit, for our own safty, by what we dare'. Montaigne said, ‘we learn to live, and limit, for our own safty, by what we dare’.

]]> By: Tom Nichols http://www.scienceprogress.org/2009/02/curiosity-makes-a-comeback/comment-page-1/#comment-4234 Tom Nichols Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:46:24 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/?p=1388#comment-4234 Curiosity---What a wonderful word....But we need to push for more of it! Without this one thing we would all still be in the dark ages...WOW--Science will soon come to the forefront in America....It is one investment which ALWAYS PAYS OFF..... Tom Nichols: The Global Medical Research Fund. Curiosity—What a wonderful word….But we need to push for more of it! Without this one thing we would all still be in the dark ages…WOW–Science will soon come to the forefront in America….It is one investment which ALWAYS PAYS OFF…..
Tom Nichols: The Global Medical Research Fund.

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