According to Arons (1983), instructional efforts to cultivate scientific literacy flounder, first
because they subject students to an incomprehensible stream of technical jargon that is not
rooted in any experience accessible to the student, and second because the material is presented much too rapidly and in far too great a volume for any significant understanding of ideas, concepts, or theories to be assimilated. Arons warns that the pace makes difficult, if not
impossible, for the development of any sense of how concepts and theories originate, how they come to be validated and accepted, and how they connect with experience and reveal relations among seemingly disparate phenomena.