Science Education and Liberal Education

"Missing from today's science textbooks is any true appreciation of the wonder of the natural world and any inspiring reason for taking an interest in science. These books tend to be intellectually pleasureless-and sometimes incoherent. In no small way, this is the fault of the absurd process by which textbooks get written and adopted. Matthew B. Crawford probes the connections between the textbook market, the teaching of science, and the liberal education of young minds."
The New Atlantis Spring 2005