I wonder if we are not doing a good enough job teaching high school students what science is.

Typically, until students reach university level, science classes tend to focus on memorizing bodies of facts and data rather than on teaching how our bodies of knowledge came to exist.

I spent far more time in my high school physics class learning how to work equations than I ever did learning how we know the equations work.

That’s just one example.

I think when the general public hears the word science, they believe it means a collection of knowledge or even a collection of engineering techniques.

I wish we could teach kids that science is a method for how to learn and discover objectively true things.