I was very pleased yesterday when I saw a link for a new talk from one of my favorite speakers, Eric Daniels. In this video of a talk from OCON 2015, he discusses the problems he sees in science education today, the historical roots of those problems, and potential solutions to them.
He gives a quote from an historian that summarizes one way in which science education has gone wrong.
In the relatively short time between 1893 and 1920, the justification for science in the curriculum had shifted