Cluxton breaks his silence
January 27, 2012
Dublin's Stephen Cluxton voted the best goalkeeper of all time
But, don't get too excited, he didn't want to talk about football...
The famously-silent Dublin goalkeeper (and science teacher) was at the Convention Centre with a group of his pupils from St Vincent's CBS, Glasnevin for the official launch of Dublin City of Science.
And, when it came to discussing the importance of science in young people's lives, the modest All-Ireland final hero was only too willing to speak:
"If you base it around experiments and fun activities and try and make it as interesting and as real life as possible, I think they find it interesting.
"From a personal point of view, you can see where the interest is, like human biology is something they're interested in, but when it comes to flowers and plants they don't seem to have that interest. So it's about making them interested in those.
"The more experiments that you can do, they'll learn more from that than taking down reams of information from a board where they get caught in the moment of taking it down, and they just don't absorb it.
"So if you can stop that and show them an experiment, that's how you can capture their imagination, so they know that not all of the science questions are answered." Tweet
