Building Curiousness in the Lecture Environment

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I feel that a lot of the teachers at Cornell, I can't speak for UCLA or other schools, but it sounds like you say it's similar that they don't do a good job. What I've heard like some professors have started to do is they will start the lecture with some sort of story that creates a question. And then the lecture as a whole answers that question. So people are motivated to listen to it because they're like, Oh, how did that what? What's the result of the story? How did that happen?" "People choose their majors, what they want to do life, not based on what they're good at," she says. 'It's because

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