• Question: do you find that the science you learnt in secondary school, you still use in your work that you do now?

    Asked by to Anna, Chris, Jane, Iain, Nick on 17 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Anna Middleton answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      Hi Chloe
      Yes, the basic principles of science that you learn in school are useful forever. For example, how to ‘think’ scientifically, how to write up an experiment, how to be objective and draw your own conclusions from your interpretation. These are things that I use in my work everyday now and I learnt them in school.

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      Iain Moal answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      Absolutely. The material I learned at school is the foundation upon which all my subsequent studies were based, and it continues to serve me well.

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      Nick Goldman answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      For me the answer is yes and no. The maths that I learnt at school is really useful to me everyday, no doubt. But the science I did at school was physics and chemistry, and I don’t use that any more. So that just goes to show, you can still change direction later on, after you finish school.

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      Jane Charlesworth answered on 18 Mar 2014:

      Not so much, really. I learned a lot of biology at school, but I haven’t used much of it. It’s more the maths that I learned at school that has been useful to me.

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