In a world filled with the products of scientific inquiry, scientific literacy has become a necessity for everyone. Everyone needs to use scientific information to make choices that arise every day. Everyone needs to be able to engage intelligently in public discourse and debate about important issues that involve science and technology. Everyone deserves to share in the excitement and personal fulfillment that can come from understanding and learning about the natural world.
Scientific literacy is of much importance in the workplace.
More and more jobs demand advanced skills, requiring that people be able to learn, reason, think creatively, make decisions, and solve problems. An understanding of science and the processes of science contributes in an essential way to these skills. Learning science is something that students do, not something that is done to them. Hurray for science.