Why do we learn science?

I think science is learned on two levels survival and curiosity. There are two parts in the survival aspect- competition and day to day. Learning science is a must if we want to compete or survive in this century. To get a job, into a school or just about anything you need to be better than someone else. To be better than someone else you have to be smart. The people who decide if you are good enough in the academic world look at two main subjects Math and Science. Other "judges" look at the social part, which is a science in its self. To be socially acceptable takes a lot of trial and error and a real knack to make predictions. This social science aspect brings me to a subject that I wish to discuss later HOMESCHOOLING. I have had experience with a kid who was home schooled and last year came back into public education. (not David) Now this kid was mainly taught in the education part and not very effectively I might add. But being home schooled this kid lost out on the social experience of kids his age, younger, older, and just as importantly teachers. This kid had trouble fitting in you could say, he had trouble talking to people and keeping from angering them. He also had no skill what so ever as to talking girls. sorry got a little off topic.

The other part of science in my view is curiosity. It is to me not good enough to just see something, I want to learn how it does this. Now I can admit some things I don't really care about knowing everything about. But a lot of our technological or scientific advances came form being curious. Take fire one of the greatest accomplishments to man and a fun thing to play with (always safely though) if it wasn't for some prehistoric, less evolved cave man curious about a spark made from two rocks we might still all be living in some caves or grass huts. Without curiosity are science and technological advances would be equal to a caveman's.