Gerald Rubin has been studying biology for 40 years, but he still can't name the parts of a flower. In the late 1960s, when a teenage Rubin attended the prestigious Boston Latin School, he says, "biology was not considered a rigorous subject worthy of being taught. And they were right. At that point, high-school biology was memorizing the parts of a flower" - a task that did not interest Rubin or his teachers.
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