Sugar Makes You Dumb

[Diana]

Nothing destroys a child's desire to learn more so than being told they're wrong.

I would add, right. Kids are not taught to think. They are taught to respond to authority within the parameters set up by authority. They read a question in school, and their is a right or wrong answer, which may not even be a true reflection of reality.

I know a PhD in particle physics. I asked her what she was going to do after she received her doctorate. She said she wanted to be a science liaison to schools and universities, to update them on the current thinking in science. She told me even at the university level they were consistently teaching outdated material. Add to that that most science is really theory. So, right vs. wrong is not a sensible way to view things.

But that is what kids are taught, and as adults it plays right into our egos and the human resistance to change.