The whole curriculum seems like it would be very helpful in developing students' critical thinking skills and jump starting one's curiosity about how the world

The whole curriculum seems like it would be very helpful in developing students' critical thinking skills and jump starting one's curiosity about how the world works – especially big concepts that matter. I never had a high school class that accomplished this – though I had teachers that definitely inspired me – so I can only imagine what the effect would be if those kinds of teachers that taught this course