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•The requirements of teaching science include passion for conveying information, open mindedness and flexibility. Learners have curious minds and can ask all sorts of questions. Some teachers consider students inferior and do not accept questions from them. Science is taught in disjoint little modules and by the time a student is expected to see the interconnectedness of all phenomena they gain an aversion to the subject. The repulsion can also stem from the emphasis on rote learning and discouraging critical thinking.  Non-academic books are given ore interest to by the student because they are open to personal interpretation and acceptance or disapproval of ideas presented. The same should be the approach of reading and learning science. For example, Einstein arrived at E=mc^2 because of his skepticism about what he was taught as a student. Science is considered to be linear and absolute but in actuality it is dynamic and open to change. Students need to employ curiosity and reflection about the facts they learn. Like Einstein they need to be students of history of science. As an article in the New York Times puts it, “Currently science classes typically consist of banal consumption and regurgitation of facts… it skews student’s perception of what science truly is.” Creative skills like imagining and visualizing a phenomena and manipulating the equations are needed during learning science. It is required to understand the beauty and intricacy of the principles the world is build upon. Science is asking the right questions to come up with new things. These are the skills that have to be taught. Students are not empty vessels to be filled but they need their energies to be guided in the right direction. As the great scientist Galileo once said “You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.”