Each year we get new 'first-graders' as we call them, new pupils starting their first year at our school.
Each year the first half year is very tightly scripted so they can switch specialization line if they want to.
Each year The Renaissance is a big topic in science education, the start of the Age of Reason, rational thought winning over religious superstition, The Scientific Idea, hierarchy of hypothesis, theory law, all that.
Each year I go to my cupboard and pull out my Renaissance costume, a scriptorial munk paradocically, and start a two hour show on alchemy, its develeopment into chemistry and several of the major figures involved.
They were somewhat sceptical at first, but really got into it. The ideas around Phlogiston especially had them thinking.
(Yes, yes, I know I really should have ironed it, but I didn't have the time...)
