Science is taught since elementarygrades. It would be interesting to know the application of the scientific knowledge gained in schools and colleges. A significant chunk of information gained through studying science is of little or no use in our daily life. For example even an illiterate person can know how to operate sophisticated technology just by using it. In daily life we need not bother ourself that water is made of two molecules of Hydrogen and one molecule of Oxygen, we still can work very well without knowing the laws of motion and gravitational pull. The point I am trying to drive home is, to what extent the Science education contributes to enhance the quality of one's life or for that matter just make it more simple and comfortable?

Curious_student, How about the computer you used to make this post? It took electrical engineers with "oodles" of mathematics courses and a lot more behind them, programmers with a complex array of technical courses and broad understanding to work from, highly complex manufacturing techniques and so much more, ALL BROUGHT ABOUT BY AN UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE. If everyone had "math anxiety" or "hated" science, where would that leave us? Radio, television, computers, space exploration, agriculture, anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, botany, cladistics, conchology, dendrochronology, ecology, Egyptology, entomology, evolution, forensics, geology, horticulture, ichthyology, limnology, mammalogy, mineralogy, nanotechnology, oceanography, ornithology, paleontology, palynology, physics, radiology, silviculture, stratigraphy, taxonomy, thanatology, viticulture, zoology, (I need a breath!) all need science and scientifically literate people to work and create in these fields. Find one that "spins your wheels" and join the crowd!

To Curious_Student: If education teaches you any thing, it's that it never stops. The people who graduate, and think it's all over worry me. Surround yourself with as many different opinions on something that interests and motivates you, and you may find a new way of looking at a problem. Technology can promote social change, some times not for good, often for. Look at the impact of the car and the transistor, then integrated circuit?. Every major change in society from pre-agricultural, to today became "that age" because of the major impact of often one or two basic technological developments. Try to think of how electronics does not affect some one, it would take me a while. It's become part of the scenery.

Keep asking questions, and if you get one you don't like, ask them to prove it.