Should elementary age children receive lighting education? Is it enough to simply wait and hope that students become interested in lighting when they enroll in college or during the job hunt? Lighting expert Barrie Wilde has written an interesting article that challenges the Lighting Industry to look at new ways of introducing lighting to students at an earlier age. He states, “Why depend on fate and wait for a young person to someday be “bitten by the lighting bug?” If an understanding of light, lighting, and its influences began at 5 or 6 years old, just imagine how a student could excel and imaginatively contribute to some future lighted environment… There’s a dream!”

To read the article, visit this page on Lighting.com. We think that you’ll find it interesting!