>a piece of kit they use once or twice and then discard You're not thinking big enough. Microscopes aren't just a teaching tool, they're a powerful tool for ob

>a piece of kit they use once or twice and then discard You're not thinking big enough. Microscopes aren't just a teaching tool, they're a powerful tool for observation of the world. One example is soil microbiology identification, which can be learned in a couple days and used to guide rehabilitation of degraded agricultural soils.[1] A microscope can reveal pathogens in polluted water. And not to mention all the medical procedures that boil down to "prep it and look at it through a microscope." The kids of today are the scientists and technologists of tomorrow. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2H60ritjag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2H60ritjag