| Sumario: | The article presents information on the general topics of achieving public support for science in the school program. It is stated that public support for science or any other curriculum area can best be gained when the sights are raised and perspective broadened. This is why the next century serves as a better goal than the present one. Decisions based on the demands of the moment are always necessary; but those which look ahead to the future are apt to be wiser. Science has been blown into the schools on the smoke of missiles and rockets, but smoke clears away when the cool clean wind blows again. Support for an educational program will come as a matter of course, because it will be in harmony with the purposes which parents have in providing an education for their children. Communication is the means for achieving such support. First of all, parents must have a share in the planning of such programs so that home and school have common aims and goals. Modern communication must be dramatic. Educators should be as up-to-date as any other group with a message.
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