It has been an honor working with your students. My one goal has been to turn kids on, or keep them turned on, to science, and I think this has been accomplished in many cases. Science is the substance of the future. My sincere best wishes to all of you!~Dr. Smith
The above is the name of a book by James Trefil, co-author of The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. It is a wonderful work that all scientists, science teachers, science students, and parents of sciencestudentsshould read.
Dr. Trefil's argument is that scientific literacy, or the comprehension of the fundamental scientific and techno-scientific issues of the day, is essential for ALL adults in our advanced and increasingly technological society. The results and costs of NOT being a scientifically literate population are clear, as noted in the book's final, and perhaps chilling, quotation, from the writings of Carl Sagan:
We've arranged a global civilization in which the most crucial elements ...depend on science and technology. We've also arranged things so that no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.
Natural disaster!
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