The two cultures (II)

"Have you read Shakespeare?" If asked to a scientist, this question would be equivalent to a question "What is the second law of Thermodynamics?" being asked to a humanities major. Snow said.
When he asked back the people, who were thought highly educated and lamented the illiteracy of scientists, the above question of thermodynamics, they didn't even seem to understand what the question was all about. He said
I now believe that if I had asked an even simpler question ― such as, What do you mean by mass, or acceleration, which is the scientific equivalent of saying, 'Can you read?' ― not more than one in ten of the highly educated would have felt that I was speaking the same language.
His concern was that as the science advances greatly, those "intelligent" people only have "about as much insight into it as their Neolithic ancestors would have had".
Look at the screening process of the government projects(事業仕分け). How difficult it is for the people of science illiteracy to sort out the scientific projects.
Wrong science administration by the government, the tendency to fall for pseudo-science... They all probably stems from the collapse of our education system. The students who major in the humanities are studying perhaps only half as hard as those majoring in the sciences. And further worsening the matter is the quality of the science major students is declining sharply. So study harder while young (and after the youth). Make your efforts double if you are an arts major (study science with the other half).
Incidentally, I've read Shakespeare^^.