There may be many scientists who wi

There may be many scientists who will not agree with the arguments
above. Those who do not must be reminded of a single
word: Change! “Change” is the magic word of our time. While those
peoples, institutions, and sectors who adopt this principle as a
mantra, religiously believe in it, and apply it have the advantage to
survive and thrive. Who do not believe in it and who see their jobs
as exclusively special, different, and/or immune to change are
sooner or later wiped away. Change is everywhere today: in art,
philosophy, economy, commerce, lifestyle, daily life, and, of course,
in science and science education. Change is a liberal and democratic
process. Change itself is subject to change. Changes do not take
place slowly and according to certain traditional rules as was the
case in the past. Today, more often than not, changes do not even
recognize the traditional rules. Change brings about new rules, and
this process happens very quickly in a global world. If we as scientists
do not take immediate action in setting our own new rules
in science education, and if we do not put these new rules into
practice soon, the inevitable consequence will be that we will find
ourselves and our students caught up in an irreversibly destructive
and fatal change (i.e., both the loss of scientists in abstract terms
and the increase of patient mortality in concrete terms) that sets its
own rules, just like the Arab spring.