We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
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Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.
Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.
I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.
We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.
Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.
We are really battling, today in the U.S., keeping science education in the forefront at the elementary level, and that's where the research shows that kids get interested.
Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question that their capacity to work out complex things is extremely good.