"A system that values obedience over curiosity isn’t education and it definitely isn’t science."
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Florida Teen Tried With Felony For Trying Science
A beautiful rant about misguided public science education and how the fear of punishment kills curiosity, especially for minorities because they tend to receive harsher punishments, and for the poor because punishments end up being harsher on them when something like bail ends up putting their families even farther in debt.
(via kindofamenace)
In regards to 16 year old Kiera Wilmot’s case, there is a petition going around to drop the charges against her:
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-bartow-police-and-bartow-high-school-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot
(via gender-and-science)
(via loveyourchaos)
