Epilogue: Discipline-Culture for the Pleasure of Understanding

Here is the place for making summarizing comments regarding the subject considered - science education. Becoming “educated in science” can be understood in a very broad sense, and this rather vague phrase often expresses people’s feeling of satisfaction in the mere idea that they possess something very valuable – scientific knowledge. A spontaneous self-evaluation in this regard is often not indicative because the subject is far from trivial. Therefore, in light of what was discussed in this book, we may suggest to agree, at least, that in this area a supervisor’s guidance is essential. We tried to address several aspects of complexity of the subject which we consider being of central importance. Among the vast number of components comprising the knowledge under examination, we brought to the fore its organization, relationships between components, their nature, and hierarchical structure.