Students who learned that great scientists struggled, both personally and intellectually, outperformed those who learned only of the scientists’ great achievements, new research shows.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlTeens do better in science when they know Einstein and Curie also struggled - Quartz - 0 views
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“In our culture we always say you don’t want to intimidate kids, you don’t want to tell them how hard the work is,” she noted. But the experiment showed the opposite strategy works better: Showing how great scientists had to muddle through lots of tough stuff made the subject matter real and allowed students to connect with them as people.
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Some people learn better when the content has meaning to them. For those students, science comes to life more through personal stories than through the actual scientific content.
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