ABSTRACT
The Boston Forum identified and discussed a number of useful approaches toward bettering both science education and public attitudes regarding science and technology. Educational inertia is no more prevalent anywhere in society than in the Education Schools themselves. Only that technical illiteracy has escalated worldwide to potentially threaten the self-preservation of the scientific community are colleague scientists showing sudden interest in helping to ameliorate the problem. Equally distressing is the growing opinion of some scientists that this kind of “selling of science” is needed, both to gain credit in the present and to win funding in the future. In world of active media and public accountability, capacity to explain the science well, accurately and without hyperbole, and the garnering of the public trust that results therefrom, are vital parts of the scientific enterprise.
