"Showing how great scientists had to muddle through lots of tough stuff made the subject matter real and allowed students to connect with them as people.
“We think kids are so fragile,” she told Quartz. “Tell them the truth. They are resilient.”...
The study underpins a few key findings from the science of learning:
Some people
learn better when the content has meaning to them. For those students, science comes to life more through personal stories than through the actual scientific content.
And kids
who learn that intellect is a malleable thing, something to be built rather than inherited, take more academic risks and perform better."
http://qz.com/622749/teens-do-better-in-science-when-they-know-einstein-and-curie-also-struggled/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
I think there is also an aggressive psychological thing about assuming you won't be good at science or math in a way we don't assume about other things. Like, you can practice and commit to other things - but you have to have a magical genius smartness to be good at math or science. Not true. I think STEM people are smart, but I think studying STEM topics and challenging ourselves made us that way.
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