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Evoke wonder in the younger generation
Inspire awe in nature’s law before adolescence slams the door
Make them marvel at life’s miracles
Theoretical and empirical
And don’t let them think for a moment anything you teach them’s gonna be a bore.
As a rule,
Most people, when taught algebra at school,
Are told they’ll find it difficult,
That their lack of understanding’s typical,
And that enjoying it is über über uncool.
Whereas I was told that I was on a bold
Adventure to capture an elusive creature
Which we called x, and the aim of the game
Was to force it to reveal its secret name.
Aged six,
When I was always up to naughty tricks,
My father, to stop my rumpus,
Showed to me a compass,
And that compass had me totally transfixed.
I twisted and turned, and my young mind yearned
To know how the needle knew which way was North
Its mystical powers had me spellbound for hours
And I was hooked on books on facts thenceforth
Aged sixteen
I was prone to daydream.
I imagined I was flying alongside a light beam.
And I pondered with feelings of wonderment, awe and unease
Could light beams such as these
Merely slow down and freeze
As your own speed increases to match its velocity?
Such crazy hypotheses
Are quite prone to displease
Even though they follow inexorably from the decrees
Of Newtonian laws
But could those laws have flaws?
Are there any theories
Whose conclusion agrees
With the stacks of observable facts and with analyses
Of imagined scenarios such as those
Seen fleetingly as I daydream about a light beam and its possibilities?
If you evoke wonder in the younger generation
And inspire awe forever more before adolescence slams the door
If you make them marvel at life’s miracles
Theoretical and empirical
And you don’t let them think for a moment anything you teach them’s gonna be a bore
Then one day eventually your little baby may be able to uncover nature’s law.

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from Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking, released November 14, 2013

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