I believe science as method would be included with philosophy, given the direct relationship between the two. I imagine in a proper school, there would be a "ph

I believe science as method would be included with philosophy, given the direct relationship between the two. I imagine in a proper school, there would be a "philosophy of science" course of some sort, but it wouldn't look like the science courses we have today. Instead, it would be focused on allowing students to pursue research projects, letting them learn a baseline of information on a topic, propose a project, and then do their own research and analysis. The problem is that today, they are given textbooks and told to memorize data they won't use and that they can find on Google in five minutes. It isn't teaching them science the process or asking them to engage in questioning the validity of one study over another, which is the true-to-life test of a person's understanding of science. How great would it be for a kid to ask "why does rain slide off of leaves?" rather than be told all the different leaf shapes and tree types? How excellent would it be to have a kid spend time documenting all the different types of clouds and offer a hypothesis on their purposes rather than just telling them the formal names and descriptions? Teach them the process, don't make them memorize. No one ever said, "wow, I really am glad they taught me the difference between cumulus and cirrus clouds in middle school science."