Chemistry and Education

University and research organizations provide teaching and training for young students in the basics of chemical science and engineering, both for students and specializing in chemistry and for others who need the underpinning experience of chemistry for their own particular scientific, professional or technical education. Universities have a vital role in the training of excellent people, and as partners with industry in collaborative research and development.

Of course, provision of an educational training in chemistry does not begin at university. It starts at primary school with an introduction to observation and embryonic interpretation of phenomena and continues through early, middle and later schooling. In many places,chemistry and chemical engineering are highly regarded as professions.

It is very true that without knowledge of basic scientific matters, of concentration, of risk and probability, and of the properties of materials and molecules, a science based industrial society can not function democratically.