Here is an article from the Boston Globe about Harvard’s inability to develop a general education requirement in science. We hear many intelligent voices in the article talking about what science education should involve, and their visions don’t coincide. What is lacking is the necessity of establishing a core knowledge in the field, one that every student must acquire. While the academics argue, more and more students pass through their four years on campus without gaining the broad liberal education that makes for an engaged citizen and a mature adult.