The teaching and practice of science needs to be compassionate

It's important that science is taught in schools in such a way as to represent a respect for life, rather than a willingness to destroy it to enhance human knowledge. That means no dissection exercises, which are unnecessary anyway. Knowledge about animal physiology can be taught through text books or 3D animated video. There is no need to raise an animal and kill it for this purpose, for to do so sends the massage to students that life is there to be taken, willy-nilly, for it is of no real value.

If science doesn't teach a care and compassion for all life then it will repel students who have such compassion and only attract those students who are callous in their approach.  These are not the sort of people we want designing scientific tests.