The extent to which science was made boring and exhaustive by the state board (maharashtra) and cbse is scary, it went from a subject that I (and I'm sure many science students) went from loving it to dreading it with all my heart. The spark that scientists like Feynman, (1/n)

Neil DG tyson, Richard dawkins etc had made in the scientist inside me was extinguished by long and boring chapters which did not aim to make the student understand fundamental concepts be it physics or chemistry (I'll refrain from talking about biology because i haven't (2/n)

Studied biology after 10th grade). Exciting experiments like young's double slit exp. Were reduced to a paragraph on the textbook without giving importance as to why or with what aim Young performed them. Science Textbooks were curiosity killers (3/n)

that reduced wonderful phenomena to a couple lines while stretching numericals and derivations for pages and pages without telling the student they were studying them. (4/n)

A critical thing that the science curriculum missed out on is the ability to think critically and objectively.
I'll quote Aristotle here."It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
The board taught us what to think but not how to.

Eventually, interested students that genuinely had a yearn for learning and curiosity were silenced to fit in class. Whenever a conceptual doubt outside of syllabus was asked, the ready answer would be that this isn't in the prescribed curriculum. The teacher made no effort to

Get back to the student after the lecture or a day after.
schools cultivate creativity by imparting the knowledge on which it so often depends.

the great breakthrough that allowed that revolution to happen: the invention of the steam engine by Thomas Newcomen ;the knowledge that led to this invention : knowledge of how, when steam condenses in a vessel, a vacuum is produced, and of how therefore, a piston could be forced

out of a cylinder when steam is injected into it, and sucked back in again when the steam condenses. this one brilliant insight enabled the British to power the factories, get water out of the mines, and get locomotives running across the country and steam ships taking goods.

As Professor Dylan Wiliam explains in his paper :

"A huge amount of research on skill acquisition has found that the skills developed by training and practice are very rarely generalised to other areas and are, in fact, very closely related to the specific training."

The same is true for creativity. Creativity is not a single thing, but in fact a whole collection of similar, but different, processes. Creativity in mathematics is not the same as creativity in visual art.

Similar arguments can be made for other ‘21st Century Skills’ such as problem-solving, communication and learning how to learn.There is some evidence that students who learn to work well with others in one setting may be more effective doing so in other settings, so some transfer

is possible. However, the really important message from the research in this area is that if you want students to be creative in mathematics you have to teach this in mathematics classrooms. If you want students to think critically in history, you have to teach this in history.

Mastering disciplines, learning to communicate effectively, engaging civilly in discussion and argument – these have been, and should remain, at the forefront of all education, everywhere.

Feynman sums it up beautifully here :

Science is as interesting a thing as poetry and music is, but you don't show a child a page of musical notes and ask them to play an instrument. That's not how science should be taught either

Let's make students learn how the world works and make them learn to see the science in little natural phenomena rather than restricting their scientific curiosity to a book and make them rote learn everything in there.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of the marvelous structure of reality. It's enough if one tries to comprehend a little of this mystery each day

To end I'll say this, Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Don't lose it. (n/n)

I'll just add a few YouTubers that do an amazing job in keeping the spark alive https://www.youtube.com/user/Kurzgesagt 

https://www.youtube.com/user/periodicvideos

https://www.youtube.com/user/willunicycleforfood

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9WQRw8jgJhag-vkDNTDMRg

https://www.youtube.com/user/Top10Memes