I show them where I failed and let them know that I don't know all the answers. Continual learning is a passion for Shultz, a passion that has inspired her involvement in the general education reform now under way on campus. As a participant in the faculty group that developed new criteria for general education courses on the natural environment, Shultz says she has experienced a significant change in the way she views her discipline as a result of the research that she and her colleagues conducted to implement the general education reforms. We as scientists need to explain what we're doing in the larger context of society. It's no fluke that Picasso and Einstein created what they did at the same time.
Scientific truth is dependent on the society in which it's born.
The question for scientists now is whether we change society to change science or whether we change science to change society. I think both have to happen. I want my students to understand that they're a part of the universe, a part of the system that is earth. They're not immune to the system. If a species fouls its nest, it dies out.