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COVxy posted...

cuttin_in_farm posted...

You either care about science. Or you dont.

I don't buy that at all. I was super interested in science in early middle school, but then stopped being interested in it around 8th grade, until my senior year of high school when I took physics. The main difference is the way that the information was taught. In my other classes, everything was rote memorization and step by step lab instructions. Only when I took the physics course, and the professor had a very different approach "demonstrate evidence for the phenomenon, you figure out how, go!", did I really get turned on to science again.

The way a subject matter is taught almost certainly changes students' interest in the topic.

How something is taught is vastly different than simply verbiage used.

In your example, the teacher would make physics interesting whether he dumbed down his terminology or not.

I do not see how dumbing down something reduces engagement. Dumbing something down objectively includes more people. Thats the point. Intentionally or not.
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