<p>“Real Bio science classes are not the ones to take for general education, they are extremely challenging, top caliber students burn out in them.” </p>
<p>I don’t agree with that statement, at all, unless you are talking about schools that are essentially pre-professional, technical training. A liberal arts school, at least, should have room in its “real Bio science” classes for non-majors, and what’s more, it should encourage those non-majors to take real courses in science. More of our graduates need to take science classes, whether they’re science majors or not; more students need to be really well-educated, not allowed to sequester themselves in the subjects they feel safe in. The division between people who know what science is about, and people whose last course was in high school, leads to (for example) policy makers with no idea that science is not a matter of opinion.</p>