Start Them Young, Start Them Playful
A three-year-old drops a ball.
She watches it. She drops it again. She is conducting the same experiment Galileo conducted, and her protocol is almost the same: reproducibility, a curious attitude, no strong prior opinions.
Don't tell her the idea is too big for her. The idea is what she's already doing
Don't tell her the idea is too big for her. The idea is what she's already doing.
The mechanism that runs a fusion reactor is the same mechanism that runs a bathtub duck. The attention pattern in a transformer is the one she uses when she notices where you hid her snack. Serious physics was never the private property of the adults.
Start them young.
Use rhyme.
Use bright colors.
Don't apologize.
The child who tastes the equation before she has the word for it will know it differently than the one who was told to wait.
