This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.
Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.
I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.
It's all about training smart.
One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.
Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.
Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.
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