Imagining science education

For every question there are at least two answers: a pragmatic and a poetic one. Teaching life sciences and mathematics in interdisciplinary context allows students to experience science from different, unusal perspectives and enjoy its aesthetic character. manna communications promotes projects turning this philosophy into practice. MANNA therefore supports two schools under development planning to combine bilingual education with interdiscipinary teaching:

  - Alexander von Humboldt International School Berlin (primary school)

  - Isaac Newton International School Berlin (secondary school)

 

Why do domes not collapse?

1. Scientific answer:
                              

2. Poetic answer:      Because all stones want to fall at the same time.

                               Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811)

The poetic answer by Heinrich von Kleist is exact and correct. It instantly makes us develop an image thereby providing an unusal perspective on gravitiy.