An inquiry into the philosophical area of any human endeavor results in the framing of why questions. Why study science at all?, naturally becomes one of these questions which has great relevance to the field of science education. How and what questions generally use up most of the science educator\u27s time and efforts. This is not an attempt to negate the importance of how and what questions (they are the stuff of science); rather, it is an attempt to determine what the case for science is in our educational process
