a little song about science
Popular culture today portrays science as an incomprehensible, almost dogmatic concept used by those with countless degrees and a complete inability to engage in any meaningful way with the world outside their ivory towers. Of course this is rarely the case which is why the band They Might Be Giants decided to make a tune about what science really is and why it maters when it comes to everything around us.
This is the important thing we need to communicate to kids in a science class. Science is a methodology for learning and making sure that what you learn can be backed up with evidence. Just taking beliefs as facts at face value is simply an exercise for your imagination rather than something that lets you better understand the world around you. And at a time when random, often half-baked opinions from agitated pundits are given way too much weight and anti-intellectualism is embraced as a value by politicians and party fringes, there’s an urgent need to show the next generation how to think things through and ask for sound logic and evidence by using the scientific method in everyday life.
