The amount of students who I have taught even just in passing following presentations or those similar alarm me. It is increasingly more apparent that none of them know much of anything about the world; I should not need to explain the function of ecology or the basic premises of life as a science as far as its interlinking components stretch. For some reason I need even tell them that all things are connected, those abiotic and those biotic at that, and the consequences of any one act, rather than them knowing or understanding this. For all my hope that one day this will be different, I fret it will never be enough.