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"Science is a way of life (Greene)." That has definitely been a common phrase I've heard since middle school. What I never really understood was why and how. Of course when we all are little kids, we wonder why the sky is blue or why the grass is green, or where did we come from. But interesting questions like those had never really been answered. Students learn from a textbook, and many teachers follow a strict curriculum. Going beyond the textbook would cause too many questions. But as we grow older, our curiousity might becomes less, and questions might be minimized.
Living in this day and age, our lives have been based around science, which brings me back to Greene's quote. We use "cellphones, iPods, personal computers and the Internet (Greene)" which have been built on the basis of science and math. And now, with global warming becoming a popular issue, meteorologists are being questions and we wonder if our world's enviornment is at stake. But are we introduced to these topics when we're in a classroom? Teachers need to be enthusiastic, and students have to learn to keep an open mind, because without it, we'll just be writing notes and taking tests without having any clue of what we're learning. Our job is to questin what's the "truth" and what's allusion and the teachers should be open to questions and advisable to conclusions.