Steve Spangler Quotes

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

I think parents want their kids to have a strong, competitive education. The message [of my victory] was that includes a full set of science standards and that includes evolution.

I want to really focus on doing this two things I really would like to focus on science and the excitement of science and to help with science. So, that's my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.

Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.

One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too many people are scientifically illiterate, often having been put off science at school.

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

… to develop a plan to promote better science education

Nearly 90 percent of high school graduates say they’re not interested in a career or a college major involving science, technology, engineering or math…

The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.

The laissez-faire attitude to science education has resulted in a disaster exemplified by the fact that more young people are opting for media studies than physics.

As far as I'm concerned, raising the bar or encouraging kids in large numbers to be interested in science, I can't think of anything I'd rather see happen.

We read to our kids at bedtime because we want to have literacy, but what are we doing to make sure kids are equally fascinated by science?

Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for young people?

I liked science. It was about the only thing that stayed the same wherever we moved.

Bill Nye the Science Guy' was awesome.

I always say, 'Be near science and technology, and you will never fail.'

It's wonderful to see more of my colleagues recognizing the importance of investing in STEM education and scientific research and development.