LEARNIG OBJECTIVES: 1. Understand why it is important to be curious and maintain the ability to wonder
“It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.”
Jack Finney, "Time and Again"
*Children do not need to be taught to be curious. ***Children can be weaned from curiosity, and it seems to me that this particular tragedy is happening in our kindergartens and schools.
Abraham Maslow
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Walt Disney
“The important thing is not to stop questioning … Never lose a holy curiosity.”
Albert Einstein
“Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back.”
“Learning is by nature, curiosity.”
Plato
https://curiosity.britannica.com/science-of-curiosity.html
Hello, guys!
My name is Andrei Shcheglov and today we will discuss the topic: “why we need curiosity”. First of all, almost everything most interesting in life begins with curiosity.
Curiosity is both an energy and a power that you can use to study successfully and to achieve your goals in life.
I encourage you to mix curiosity with reasonable caution, to avoid becoming the hero of the legend of Icarus, who flew so high that the sun melted the wax that bound the feathers of his wings and he fell down.
As children, we are all usually pretty curious, but by adolescence and adulthood the level of curiosity varies greatly. It depends on the path people have taken, or rather whether they have been rewarded or punished for their curiosity. If, over the course of our lives, satisfying our curiosity/attraction to adventure has rewarded us with discoveries, cool results, and praise from parents, friends, and loved ones, it's likely that we and our brains have "learned" to be curious and have learned that this is a good thing. In the opposite situation - if our curiosity got us into unpleasant situations, got us injured, got us punished by our parents, etc., we are more likely to be conservative, cautious, and certainly less curious.