Curiosity – Polina G.

Curiosity is a big word for an interest which people have. Usually, people like to question everything or the majority of the things in this world. These days we even talk about it in school, so let’s talk about it today!

What is curiosity?

Curiosity is an urge to discover, an interest or to understand new things. The best example of curiosity is a child. Simply, just because we all can remember ourselves questioning everything around us. Or we meet kids with too many annoying (to us!) questions. However, these questions are the base layer for improvement, as they give us firstly common understanding for everything around us and finally, they lead to a background understanding. So not only common sense but also cause and effect.

Why is it important?

Many people are embarrassed to ask, what they consider, “stupid” questions but without them they won’t understand the subject. Also if students know more about subjects it could lead to higher interest overall. Curiosity strongly develops critical thinking because when people get answers back they analyse them, maybe create new ideas and want to try them out in real life which improves problem-solving skills. Even though it might be quite straight forward, but most scientific inventions were discovered either due to the curiosity or a need for something. Historically it is natural for people to improve things but to make them better they have to know what’s wrong.

Sadly, nowadays people are questioning less then they could and should but the good thing is that we still do question. We ask a minimum of one question each day – or, if we don’t ask, we will have one in our mind.