Reply to comment

Before we started the institute, I believed good science education involved letting student's explore subjects that interest them, and to find ways to engage them in an inquiry based education instead of making science a memorizing class. Although we discussed these issues in the institute, my experience here has led me to think that good science education has more to do with the students, than completely changing the educational system. Looking at education in a neurological/behavioral view, I seem to think capturing the interest of the student, is one of the more important aspects of education than what i previously thought.

It seems that altering teaching methods to make subjects more "fun" and interactive is a good approach to changing student behavior towards science education in a more positive direction.