Abstract
In this article, Dr. Wendt identifies the four major aspects of science as research, knowledge, applications, and the social force hich it exerts. He discusses each of these in terms of the needs of society and the individual, and in terms of the re sponsibility of the secondary school. He pleads against the common error of empha sizing one or some of these aspects at the expense of the others. In closing, he identi fies the goal of secondary-school science education as the preparation of young people for life in the last quarter of the twentieth century and the first years of the next. He contends that, since no teacher knows the nature of these years to come, the education of young people must prepare them to cope with "constant and inexorable change."