Question: what was your favourite subject in school

Rachel Edwards answered on 24 Nov 2025:

It depended on my age. Early on I loved art the most. By the end of primary school I was really enjoying the fun problems in maths, but still I’d have said art, or cooking, or possibly writing stories. At my first secondary school I discovered science, and had a supportive teacher who could see I liked the physics lessons best, and encouraged me to consider those. I wouldn’t have thought about physics without his support – and it turned out he was very right. I’m now a physicist at a university, and I spend my time doing scientific research, which uses maths as a tool to solve problems.