UMA DAS TRAGÉDIAS DO NOSSO SISTEMA EDUCATIVO

O "New York Times" de terça-feira traz sempre a página de ciência. Desta vez traz uma entrevista com o físico norte-americano Sean Carroll, autor do recente livro "From eternity to here". O bold é meu:

"Q. WHEN YOU GO TO A COCKTAIL PARTY, DO YOU TELL PEOPLE THAT YOU ARE A PHYSICIST? SOME PHYSICISTS WON’T.

A. I do! But I know what you’re talking about. Whenever you say you’re a physicist, there’s a certain fraction of people who immediately go, “Oh, I hated physics in high school.” That’s because of the terrible influence of high school physics. Because of it, most people think physics is all about inclined planes and force-vector diagrams. One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we’ve taken this incredibly interesting subject — how the universe works — and made it boring."

No fim, dá uma razão para se fazer física:

"The rules of nature are ultimately our rules and when we try to understand them, we learn something about ourselves."

O resto pode ser lido aqui.