Education Gets Children to Stop Asking "Why?"
Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns to talk every child makes a dreadful nuisance of itself by asking 'Why?'. To stop this nuisance society has invented a marvellous system called education which, for the majority of people, brings to an end their desire to ask that question. The few failures of this system are known as scientists.
Sir Hermann Bondi, The Making of a Scientist (June 1983)
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While those who don't stop asking grow up to be scientists.
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