Boys need encouragement to be scientists - what do you think?

[txlibdem]

47. I like your theory but it wouldn't work for me.

The only thing I've mastered is the periodic emptying of my memory banks. Or I should say a gradual emptying of them. I find it harder to think new thoughts, they must be forced in there and do not slide into place by themselves (forced through repetition: reading it, writing notes about it, testing my understanding of it and then reading my notes again). Before I understood how my brain works I was a terrible student. I'd been that way when I was young (and until 9th grade or so): it felt like walking through a pool of honey or molasses to reach the destination and gain a new thought. Then it was like a light switch was turned on and my mind was like a sponge. I had a photographic memory (just shy of eidetic) for two decades, then it gradually went away. I miss being able to read something and then recite it word for word weeks later. But, such is life as the French would say.