I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

Irwin frames education less as the transfer of facts than as the contagious transmission of curiosity. The “educational message” becomes persuasive when it is carried by visible passion—an idea consistent with his public persona as a wildlife presenter who relied on exuberant demonstration to make conservation memorable. The quote suggests that enthusiasm is not ornamental but instrumental: it lowers resistance, invites attention, and models the emotional stance (wonder, care, urgency) that often precedes genuine learning. Implicitly, it also argues for educators as exemplars—people whose excitement signals that the subject matters and is worth sustained engagement.