Seems like the author has a limited sense of wonder. Just because the teacher didn’t say “Isn’t X amazing!” He didn’t realize that it was amazing. Hint: Everything is amazing. Start looking at the world that way and you’ll do way better in everything you do. If teachers had to tell you all the amazing things in the world they wouldn’t have time to tell you how things work - which is also amazing. (I’m locked out of additional comments so have to respond to my critics by edit: I’m a molecular biologist and a computer scientist. I find the names are part of the wonder. It’s hard to describe how this can be true unless you have a wholistic sense of what wonder means. Maybe I have an overactive sense of wonder. )