How Melinda Gates Got Her Daughters Excited About Science (geekwire.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 25, 2016 @10:34PM from the getting-started dept.

theodp writes: GeekWire reports that Melinda Gates concluded a Davos panel discussion about gender parity with a personal story about her own family, explaining how she originally became interested in computer science, and how she later played Lab Manager to Bill's Mr. Wizard to help pass along their passion for science and math to their kids. "On Saturday mornings," Gates explained, "I wanted to sleep late. So you know what I did? I made sure there were science projects available, and that's what he did with our two daughters and our son. And guess what my two daughters are interested in? Science and math."

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Re:Why not let children develop their interests by Sique · 2016-01-25 23:15 · Score: 4, Insightful

Children learn by imitation. You have to give an example to children, so they learn from you, even if the example is how to look for something interesting to do. Just sit there and wait until the children pick something up themselves is a recipe for disaster. All your children will learn is how to passively sit there and wait until something happens.

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Re: This would be better : by qbast · 2016-01-26 01:35 · Score: 4, Insightful

Windows makes you pay through the $$$ just to ADD a c/c++ compiler.
Visual Studio Community edition - free.

Mind closing. Linux FTW!
Yeah, your mind got closed all right.