Science is a cultural pursuit, meaning that it is rooted in our western philosophical tradition. It both reflects and reinforces society's dominant values and goals. Its traditional agenda, hidden because unquestioned, is service to humanity no matter what the costs to the rest of creation. Its traditional goal is manipulation and control. Its methodology is intensely masculine, aggressive, competitive and non-affective.
Science is instrumental, a means harnessed to human goals.
As long as the goals are wrong, science will be part of the problem not the answer. It is as if the importance of calculating were to be recognized in all subjects without any special classes in mathematics, or as if the importance of budgeting were to be recognized in all government departments without establishing a leading department of finance. The life-preserving importance of the ecocentric idea requires that it erupt into the school curriculum as the central subject to which all others are harmonized. A core curriculum reflects a consensus that certain subjects have paramount importance. The core ensures that everyone is exposed to the great truths of a culture and to the means of communicating them.