Secondary headline: To create a scientifically literate populace, curriculum developers must downplay the conceptual structures understood by the scientific elite and instead emphasize exciting examples and everyday applications. "The Science for All slogan has a democratic ring about it that implies there's something in it for everyone. It also acknowledges that science education in the past has not been science for all... First, elite or traditional science education must be confined to and contained within an upper level of schooling...Second, science must be reexamined and recognized as a variegated source of human knowledge and endeavor.."