What does life-affirming education mean?

“Physics is also about wonder and curiosity; and the more you understand it the more you have a sense of gratitude and reverence—to use Tagore’s musical words, you are privileged to find yourself amidst this extraordinary universe and trying to find how things happen around you. If Physics is reconciled with this poetry, science would acquire a new meaning; it would not be reduced into just instrumental technology.” wonder and curiosity; and the more you understand it the more you have a sense of gratitude and reverence—to use Tagore’s musical words, you are privileged to find yourself amidst this extraordinary universe and trying to find how things happen around you. If Physics is reconciled with this poetry, science would acquire a new meaning; it would not be reduced into just instrumental technology.”