The state of scientific schooling in our public schools is terrible. We're dooming ourselves to second-tier nation status.
It is amazing. Science education in this country gets squeezed by both sides. From the left, you have PC-lovers who would rather that the schools focus on women's studies and instilling high self-esteem while on the right you have people trying to replace science with theology.
I imagine, if you go into the average school in China, you have none of this nonsense. All you'll see is a bunch of kids learning science as part of their government's plan to supplant us as the world's #1 power.
The state of scientific schooling in our public schools is terrible. We're dooming ourselves to second-tier nation status.
Other than in graduate schools, I think we are already there and rapidly heading to third-tier nation status.
The only bright light is that an intelligent and self-motivated student has access to an enormous quantity of information to read and study and arrive at his/her own conclusions, regardless of what is being taught in our schools/indoctrination centers.