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[โ€“] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You've got some weird teachers. My teachers were all pretty keen to nurture curiosity. When we'd just learned about combustion and how fire needs oxygen, I asked my teacher after the lesson about the sun and how it could be burning without oxygen, and she just explained nuclear fusion and what the sun actually was, and that the words "burning ball of gas" is a bit of a misnomer because that's not what's happening.

[โ€“] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, my public schools were considered some of the better ones in the country, and Im quite sure any of the teachers would just use that as a launching point, or at least give a cursory explanation and say it'll be covered later. So this a good example of the differences.