no doubt about it maybe a long time before we reach the planets they're pretty far away but a space station first and from there on out to the moon that's on the way in and maybe quicker than we think shares no no i mean are you going to be ready i don't see why not it's going to take someone with a spirit of adventure i still say are you going to be ready i don't know what you're getting th facts as betty says the fact is adventure will be just one little part of it right now you and betty will have to get ready for the other things that will take reich was like what you know automobile and i did the same thing with the airplanes you took kids well i guess you're part of the atomic age yeah there's a television me that's where i'm getting at if you want to be an important part of your to have the big chair and keeping us healthy your mother planning nutritious meals for us taking care of you and when you are babies suppose you don't find the right man right away so many worthwhile  careers for women physical therapy nursing medical and dental laboratory technicians you have to have some knowledge of science not a get one of those jobs when something now when you're exactly little and wanted to know what made it rain but made the telephone work if you act now that he was at work but i didn't learn about science in school i had to dig out the encyclopedia later satisfy you found you maybe not maybe you won't be another edison but but how do you know you walk edison may not have been a scientist when he was your age either but the scientists chemistry biology and physics or give you a chance to only work at sun you're still a citizen with the power to rock climbing in a scientific gauge we need citizens who know enough about science to make intelligent decisions about what they do we  science to prolong life to increase security and happiness but it can also be used for destruction are we going to use it constructively to promote peace and and give the real freedom from want it'll be up to you yes jack that they cation will soon be over you'll be going back to school you and betty and thousands of other young people will get down to work in the business of preparing yourselves for the life ahead and what good prospects your world firsthand two weeks in paris overnight develop these may be commonplace to you as the science of agriculture advances the world will be better and clothed and how you too will reap great harvest and you will know the benefits of the many industries pioneered by science but along with the blessings of a scientific age you will shoulder new and great responsibility you will have to learn all you can about today's technology so that you can do your share of the world's work so that you can encourage research so that you can heal the sick so that you can build the bridges and buildings and highways of tomorrow so that you can teach inspire and encourage those who come after radiology nursing dietetics all these and more require a basic knowledge of some of you may be statesman who must understand the impact and implications of science on society you may well decide whether mankind is bettered or destroyed by the products of science you will be ministers and social workers and psychiatry is too through your comprehension of the adjustments men must make it a scientific age can help us to grow spiritually and socially as we grow materially but apart from future benefits you will find the various peals of science are absorbing studies right here and right now while you are in school science is fun it helps you to learn to know and to appreciate when you study science you may go on field trips you discover the marvelous interrelationships between all living thing you learn to read the history of the earth as it is written in rocks and once you find out what makes things take everything from a molecule to a living organism in the study of scientists found the most useful and satisfying knowledge of man's knowledge of his physical world its past its present and its future and in your moments of relaxation now and in the years to come you will find the study of science leading you into fascinating pursuits th life study science study science because you and betty and the nancy's and bill's and joes and janes all over the country will find in the study of science a richer more rewarding li