Genuinely Amazes Me How Schools Can Spend So Much Time Teaching Science Without Helping Students Develop

genuinely amazes me how schools can spend so much time teaching science without helping students develop an ounce of scientific literacy

like honestly? most of us won't need to know how mitochondria work in our day-to-day life. we won't need to draw electron configurations or calculate the apex of a trajectory. we WILL need to know how to read a graph, how a vaccine works, how scientific studies and drug trials are conducted, how to find trustworthy sources.

of course you pick these things up if you're interested in/exposed to enough science, but i wish they would be explicitly taught in intro science courses instead of those trivia-esque science facts that don't teach people anything about how to interact with science in their daily lives. how can we expect to counter the rampant scientific misinformation on the internet if science classes don't cover the stuff most of us will encounter in the real world?