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Specifically to the article--we have failed, both in math and science,
sell the public (meaning our students) on the importance of thisknowledge
and these skills to their successful functioning in the modern world.hear
Despite a huge emphasis put on this in my gen-ed course, I still will
the comment (from a few)--I don't need to understand this stuff, I don'tscience.
want to understand this stuff---I just want to use the fruits of
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[Cases in point are the
International Space Station and future manned exploration of Mars.Public
opinion is negative on both--but the public has been poorly educated asto
the ultimate benefits of each of these expensive projects to humansociety.]
Educated scientific opinion is also opposed (See Bob Parks'
"What's New" weekly postings) extravagances of the military-industrial
complex. So the public seems to be ahead of this particular critic.
Also, note, it was the public - the parents - who went after the
schoolboard in the Dover, Pa. cases. Beware of generalizations,
especially such facile ones as these, for all generalizations are false
(including this one).