"You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of enthusiasts. They ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a , why do we have , why is the round, what is the birthday of the , why is ?"These are profound, important . They just right out of them.You go talk to 12th graders and there's none of that. They've become .Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade."

(: with Carl Sagan)

@gojonnes for a few glorious years, it seemed that every sentence from my son began with “Tell me...”. Until they didn’t

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