For the love of it

摘要

Our education systems manufacture efficient employees, but fail to instill a wider curiosity and love of learning that enriches every part of our lives, says SIMON BARNES particularly when it comes to natural history. A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, I was in Belize, helping the World Land Trust to save the rainforest. You know - those places that cover six per cent of the world's surface and harbour 50 per cent of all known species. If you go to a rainforest, you get blown away by diversity, by the fact thatthere are millions and millions of different sorts of living things there.