Instilling the love of SCIENCE

Sadly the powers that be have put such an emphasis on Math and English Language Arts that Science has been placed as secondary or on the list of not as important.  How devastating to the science world!  Instilling the love of science at an early age is so important.  We need to encourage questioning!  I have blogged about this previously.  Look at all of the medical discoveries that have happened over the past 10 years.  Would these medical breakthroughs have happened if students did not have a teacher to encourage their questioning or their interest in science?  Personally this effects my family.  My son who was born with a congenital heart defect has benefited GREATLY from medical advances.  The man who did the first pediatric open heart surgery which was unheard of at the time.  If he had not questioned, thousands would not have benefited.  Since my son was born in 2005, another brilliant group of scientist have developed a technique to place heart valves through a heart catherizations.  How wonderful for so many children that now they can have defective or non working heart valves replaced without cracking their chest!  And why is this possible?  Because someone questioned!  They questioned why couldn't they do this?  How can we do this through the least invasive way possible?  Science is IMPORTANT!  The discoveries just in the medical field alone justify the important of science.  I do not feel that I am biased because my family has benefited.  We have all benefited.  How important for us to encourage science.  Maybe one of our students will discover the cure for Ebola or even cancer!  Dreaming big!