Teaching Kids to Love Fishing

We all know the one about "Give a man a fish, teach a man to fish..."

What if fish represented science knowledge?  I know, but just go with me here for a sec.

We can only "give" a certain amount of science knowledge between August and June.  And it isn't very much.

So we teach them to fish - to pursue and generate their own science knowledge.  We teach questioning, data, analysis... Once we're not around any more, they can keep growing their knowledge.  They can keep finding fish.

But will they?

What if teaching them to love fishing is the most important piece of the whole thing?

That's not going to be on the SAGE test, by the way.