Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level.
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.
Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.
We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.
My own beliefs are that the road to a scientific discovery is seldom direct and that it does not necessarily require great expertise. In fact, I am convinced that often a newcomer to a field has a great advantage because he is ignorant and does not know all the complicated reasons why a particular experiment should not be attempted.
I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.