• Question: Do you think it is important to give children an education in all three parts in science (Chemistry, Physics, Biology) or is one more important than the other.

    Asked by x_Ellie_x to Deborah, Euan, Maheen, Rob, Stu on 13 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Maheen Siddiqui

      Maheen Siddiqui answered on 13 Jun 2016:

      I think all of them are equally important. Biology gives you the basic knowledge about the human body which everyone should know and physics and chemistry help make sense of the world around you.

    • Photo: Rob Stanley

      Rob Stanley answered on 13 Jun 2016:

      I think it’s very important, I think studying lots of things in school is important, otherwise how will you know what you want to do for a job?

      But there are more sciences than those three, and they all have lots of sub-categories. For example: anthropology, forensics, astronomy, medicine!

    • Photo: Euan Allen

      Euan Allen answered on 13 Jun 2016:

      Absolutely. Even though most of my work now involves my knowledge of physics, often I actually come across a problem that requires my knowledge of biology or chemistry to solve. It’s important to have a very rounded education so that you can make good judgement on problems and ways to move forward in projects.

    • Photo: Deborah Prunty

      Deborah Prunty answered on 14 Jun 2016:

      All three are important and children should definitely be exposed to all three. How else can they get a feel of what they are and how they work?

      All three do over lap however. I’m a chemist and am biased. I’m going to say that biology and physics are the extreme ends of chemistry :p

    • Photo: Stuart Cannon

      Stuart Cannon answered on 15 Jun 2016:

      I think it is important to have an basic understanding of scientific concepts from other disciplines.

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