Everyday decisions such as recycling or buying an electric car require basic scientific knowledge. Professor Pascal Waechter tells us about the importance of teaching science through experiences, such as those offered by the Luxembourg Science Center.
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00:00In my teaching, I focus a lot on the experiment, because we realized that we managed to
00:10accrocher a lot of students who have just been accrochés compared to the math, in the
00:17approach to the experiment. There is at the point here the exploration, and then there is also the
00:22aspect a little more dirigé, which is the show. Today we are doing a show on the polymers,
00:27we can see the plastics, what are they, can we recycle, can we limit the use,
00:33what are the alternatives. We have an awe of curiosity about the questions
00:38that are all in relation to our daily life. So, to form citizens and not only scientists.
00:45We have experience here that costs hundreds of millions of euros, that we will never
00:52suffer in a school. And we will also have mediators who will be experts
00:57in the field and who will be able to complete our knowledge to us, who are generalists.
01:03So, the goal of the Science Center is not only to motivate people to become scientists,
01:08even for our teaching. We also need science every day. It is really important to make the
01:14good choices as a citizen, as a consumer. So, the mission of our teaching is also this, to try to
01:23push the students to have a critical mind, to ask questions.
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