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Because you mention school - just the number of kids in a class (in Germany or at least in Berlin about 30) can make things very difficult for kids.

Methos

God thats sounds like torture...

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Well, not exactly torture. I never had any problems in school but others were for example just too shy to say something in front of 30 people... They may have been just as shy in front of say 10 kids but with 10 kids it would be a lot easier for the teacher to help out.

Methos

Do people become less inquisive as they grow older, particularly as there are more things that they know (or at least think they know)?

30 kids in a class seems to be fairly standard in state schools around where I live. Fewer is certainly better, but then its also expensive.

For me, "questioning things" is the main aspect of science that makes it more reliable than faith. One is designed to instruct, the other to explore. Faith assumes it knows the answers, science goes out and looks for them. At least in theory, in reality people can sometimes become dogmatic about scientific theories, but that never seems to last. So many scientific theories that were once accepted as truth have gotten thrown by the wayside and completely abandoned over time, whereas faith never seems to die.

ok, er, yes it's easyer to tech less kids than more, but then, most parents don't seem to do much these days...

-- DoctorMO --

It both. Nature and Nurture.

Questions/answers are entertaining too

Asking questions becomes difficult as you get older because more and more stuff in your life depends on having the answers.

I have not gotten less inquisative. It is just as likely You find out what you do not know as you get older. As long as your interests are varied and you are relatively healthy,I cannot imagine why you would run out of questions.

Since I was in grade school Geography has changed yearly. Science too. There are areas that did not exist! There have been discoveries of possible historical religious significance since my birth also. People before me had not been exposed to *new Math* as it was called. Phonics or speed reading.History most kids do not care for. It takes getting some history of your own to even start looking the worlds or your families. Kids want all New!! It takes seeing some history made to wonder about the past. It takes 1 issue in politics to start you off in that area. You have a younger generation around at all times to keep up with. All these things CAN keep you curious.

IMO you were probably always a bore or a know-it-all or something is wrong ,if you stop asking questionsBut then I always have & have not slowed down. So I could be wrong

Blind faith never questions!

If you think science has all the answers then you don't understand science!

If you think you know all the answers then you don't understand the questions!

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Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1902-1967)
American physicist, director of the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos, New Mexico, from 1943 to 1945
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There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
-- Robert Oppenheimer, Life Magazine, October 10, 1949


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YAY!

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