Tyler DeWitt: How Do We Get Kids Hooked On Science?

Great share brother.

We need leaders and high profile people who have a keen and almost constant interest in science. The best example of this is the moon landings. Look at how many kids were fascinated with the space program and how many eventually ended up doing something scientific. For much of the last 20 to 30 years thought there has been a noticeable lack of interest by national leaders, the media and the public in general regarding science. I still remember the day Neil Armstrong died. Barely in the news and I don't even thing the President mentioned it that day. The news was all about some fake celebrity doing this or that as I recall. Not that the first human to walk on the Moon had died. Sad how our priorities are now America's Got Talent and crap like that and fake celebrity Kardashian crap like that.

We need to re-ignite the minds of young people to the awe and excitement that science and knowledge brings.

I think I've mentioned this more than once in a couple of other posts. In one of my upper div classes for physics, there were 26 of us five of us were United States citizens. UC Santa Barbara, top ten in the nation, probably top 25 in the world and it can't attract Americans???