HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours agoWhy does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids?message-squaremessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down11
arrow-up154arrow-down1message-squareWhy does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids?HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squareAskewLord@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·4 hours ago Teaching an 8 year old that science research sits at the top of a pyramid and newspapers and TV sitd at the bottom, would be easy to grasp. you have never been around children, have you?
minus-squareflabberjabber@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 hours agoIf kid is capable of understanding basic scientific method at 8 years old, they can understand the basic structure of a hierarchy. “X is more important than Y” “Why sir” “Because X uses the scientific method like we discussed in class last week and Y does not” “What’s the scientific method again sir” repeats for retention
minus-squareAskewLord@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 hour agothat’s not how kids work. nor do most people.
you have never been around children, have you?
If kid is capable of understanding basic scientific method at 8 years old, they can understand the basic structure of a hierarchy.
“X is more important than Y”
“Why sir”
“Because X uses the scientific method like we discussed in class last week and Y does not”
“What’s the scientific method again sir”
repeats for retention
that’s not how kids work. nor do most people.