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Asked by anon-208357 to Tori, Titus, Stuart, Hannah, Gill, Alessandro on 5 Mar 2019.
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Hannah Dalgleish answered on 5 Mar 2019:
I think it’s incredibly important. If young people learn how science works (for example, we look at evidence, we ask questions, we try to find answers based on the evidence) then young people can make better decisions in the future. The skills we use for science are used in every day life, from deciding who to vote for to which product we should buy.
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Titus Mutwiri answered on 5 Mar 2019:
I believe science is for everyone, therefore young people included. The depth of it is what may demarcate how much is for consumption by the young people. When we study about the sun and other stars in elementary level that’s science, when we discover drugs and engage in research post university that’s still science. Actually it is more for young people since currently we have better systems and machinery that the young can use to produce more work and better results in the years to come.
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Gill Harrison answered on 6 Mar 2019:
Simple answer = very!
Science helps us to know what is happening around us, how we can influence that & make changes for the better (back to the question on climate change). If we didn’t have science you’d be back to the days of no mobile phones, no TV, no internet or PCs, no cars…etc etc…
Early medicine didn’t have the technology we have to make a diagnosis. Life expectancy in 1900 for a male was less than 50 year old!
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/lifeexpectancies/articles/howhaslifeexpectancychangedovertime/2015-09-09 -
Stuart Higgins answered on 8 Mar 2019:
I think lots, whenever I meet people at science festivals or in schools, they always seem to really like science.
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