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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/sawpub/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Obviously, these posts have turned into a series. I probably would have remarked on that fact when I did What If My Student Hates Math<\/a>, except that I really couldn\u2019t face referring to it as the \u201cWhat-If-My-Student-Hates . . .\u201d Series.<\/p>\n I mean think about it. I\u2019m writing a homeschooling blog, not a psychology course.<\/p>\n That being said, there are plenty of homeschooling moms out there wondering how they got their kids to like history, and English, and social studies\u2014but can\u2019t get anything except groans when it’s time for science.<\/p>\n As with the math-hating topic, I feel a certain affinity with students who struggle with science. With the exception of half a course in primary school, and about one and a half in high school (more on that later), I suffered from a chronic dislike of science throughout my educational years.<\/p>\n There were three tangible reasons for this dislike.<\/p>\n 1) I was an avid history buff, and we happened to study history and science in the same time slot on alternate days. Thus, I disliked science because it wasn\u2019t history.<\/p>\n 2) I was a child who hated to get my hands sticky, and science sometimes involves experiments that get all over the place.<\/p>\n 3) I was an unathletic student, never had any difficult sitting still, and therefore did not find it refreshing to get up and try experiments. That sounds horribly lazy. Maybe it was. But I do remember disliking the bother of doing experiments if I wasn\u2019t actually curious about the result!<\/p>\n Underneath all of these objections to science lingered the real one: I just wasn\u2019t naturally drawn to the study of the impersonal laws of nature. You can\u2019t love everything, and science was one of the things I didn\u2019t love!<\/p>\n No, I am not going to be so conceited as to suppose we can make two categories, and call the first \u201cwhy I hated science\u201d and the second \u201cwhy everybody else hates it.\u201d On the other hand, I am aware that not all students who dislike science dislike it because they are unathletic, don\u2019t-get-their-hands-sticky, dyed in the wool history buffs.<\/p>\n As a general statement, however, I would suggest that there are<\/em> two overarching causes, one or other of which tend to influence the feelings of most students who hate science.<\/p>\n 1) The student really does not have a natural interest\/aptitude for science. Please note the word natural<\/em>. I do NOT believe that a teacher needs to give up in despair if their student happens to fall into this category. Interests can be learned. Aptitudes can be fostered. As we will discuss in a little bit, it is more than possible to stimulate scientific interest in the most inveterate science-hater. But as I observed above, it is a simple fact that some people take more easily to a given subject than others. Those are the students who fall into category one.<\/p>\nWhy I Hated Science<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Why Everybody Else Hates Science<\/strong><\/h5>\n