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Vote: | Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. |
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Vote: | If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is! |
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Vote: | That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve. |
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Vote: | The image of science is not helped by stereotypical media coverage either. "Between the scientists labelled as 'boffins' because no-one can see a useful application to their work, and the scientists who are seen as selling out to spin whatever story their commercial sponsors require, we aren't doing ourselves any favours. |
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Vote: | The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost. |
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Vote: | There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial. |
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Vote: | There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind. |
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Vote: | We were always told that the first rule in children's programmes is to talk through the camera to get a connection with the viewers. But in shows like Blue Peter, they talk to each other as though the kids are not there so it feels like you are looking in through the window at someone else's party. |
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Vote: | When children's minds are open to new ideas and concepts at the age of six, they could be taught the basics of molecular structure, how Oxygen and Hydrogen and Carbon join up to make ever-day substances. By the age of 14, their minds are already doubtful of new ideas which suggest something fundamentally different to what they know, and they can no longer be inspired into exploring science. |
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Vote: | While Mali's men were at home in the evening, complaining about the poor land and lack of water, the women were in the school rooms making radio programmes on how to improve your children's diet, how to help educate them at home, and make life better. They were the driving force for change, ultimately concerned with making life better for the future. |
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Vote: | Women make such excellent scientists and engineers - because of their passion for learning and will-power to succeed. They out-perform the lads in science all the way through school, but somehow are put off engineering and science at a higher level, and that is so very sad. |
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Johnny Ball (born May 23, 1938) is a British television personality. He was a regular fixture on children's television in the 1970s and 1980s, presenting several series of popular science and technology programs intended for children (including Think of a Number; Think Again; Think Backwards; Think...This Way and Johnny Ball Reveals All). He was also one of the hosts of infant education programme Play School. All of these shows (except the ITV programme ...Reveals All) appeared on the BBC.
He is the father of former BBC Radio 1 DJ and TV host Zoë Ball.
In July, 2004 he was named in the Radio Times list of the top 40 most eccentric TV presenters of all time. He was certainly one of the best, with a whole generation of children enjoying the way he could explain complicated scientific and mathematical phenomena in such a straightforward and unpatronising way, and with the aid of a few appalling puns ("I'm a mystic! And here's me stick!").
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