A Reverence for the Truth

The essence of science education is a clear working understanding of the scientific method of solving problems along with the belief in a system that strives for over-whelming consensus leading to objective truth.  This the kind of truth that stands the test of time whether you believe in it or not.

Climate change and associated environmental ramifications is one such example of an objective truth. Climate change is grounded in physics and chemistry and its evidence-based vindication rests upon the belief and reverence for truth that science brings forth in our modern world.

To deny science is to turn your back on the renaissance of logical rational thought based upon evidence and solidified with societal consensus.  Science becomes the means by which to communicate in a word besieged with misinformation, bigotry, illogical thinking and denial of basic facts related to the universe.

In the public-school, students as young as 5 years old and up to adulthood embrace the pursuit of knowledge that becomes, for them, their fundamental belief system.  Science, in its purest form, challenges these voyagers to push the envelope of understanding as far as possible; this is the possibilities even with limitations in students’ abilities to performing investigation processes, a classroom proliferation of diverse abilities to think cognitively and the existence of various levels of personal inspiration and motivation to seek knowledge.

Welcome to the American classroom.

Under guided mentoring of  experienced public-school educators, there is no better place for children to expand positive influences upon their lives and upon the lives of people around them. This pursuit of truth in science becomes an incubator for the development of students' cognitive abilities and self-efficacy. Both of these abilities are powerful tools needed to reach self-actualization in a person's life. Learning environments, in our schools, foster both innovative thinking and problem solving abilities within our children to effectively change the world.

In the long-term the pursuit of science impacts upon the ability of people to form rational thoughts, to justify meanings and beliefs on problems and solutions and to champion causes that affect their lives and the lives of people throughout society.  In the short-term the study of science helps to breed inquiry, greater understanding and an increased appreciation for life on this planet. 

We will not progress as a society unless we embrace, with reverence, the objective truths brought to us by science.  Technology, scientific knowledge and understanding have pushed back the envelop of famine, plague and wars that has mercilessly dogged humankind from the day we emerged from caves and began to walk this planet.  To develop our humanity, we must keep vigilant the struggle and the pursuit of greater scientific inquiry, increased applications to technology and destined shared elevated standards of living for all people.