why am I more intersted in laboratory studies than theory, how can I change this?

Question

Education, why is it that I understand its importance in my life yet I can’t seem to be able to spark my interest in it, or if I am ever interested, I can’t find a way to get a full reward and to be satisfied with myself at the end? In courses with a laboratory portion for instance, I am 95% of the times interested in the lab work alone, I do really good in it, I enjoy so much doing research to write professional reports after doing the experiments, yet I do bad or just OK in the theory portion of the class, and that results in me ending up with a just OK grade overall, then going back to the enthusiasm I had at the beginning of the class, I feel stupid… how can I look at the theory with the same amount of interest as I do for the laboratory field?

Answer 1

If conducted well experiments validate and proof a theory to be correct. So a theory is human kinds way and attempt at explaining how, or why something happens. The experiment is what actually really happens and good (or previous confirmed) theory is supported / re-supported by the experimental results.

So many people think the other way that if (well carried out) experiments reveal X and a new / unproven theory says X+10 then the experiment is wrong. In this unproven theory's case a good set of experiments show a deficiency in the unprove theory, and therefore the unproven theory needs rethought.

Therefore motive your self to understand theory and use your love of experimentation to reprove or dis prove theories.