It was important to make a connection with students in schools. The choice of the Australian Science and Mathematics School was deliberate. My preconception was that there would be little interest in making a connection with poetry. For so long, our administrators and employers showing primarily interest in the needs of their industries, have discouraged connections. I was wrong. Chapter 6 of Challenging the Divide is the result of the ASMS students' involvement with the project. The challenge will be to bring about connections across disciplines in schools without this specific focus. Much will depend upon collaborative timetabling so that interdisciplinary engagement is possible within and between schools. The Internet could that to happen but nothing is better than personal engagement.

I hope the website will encourage those working in schools to engage in interdisciplinary approaches between the sciences and the humanities. We need to deepen students' understanding of the impact of decisions that are made to use the discoveries of science without thought for their short and long-term consequences. Although, in one poem by a student at the ASMS, there is knowledge and understanding and serious concern about the lack of political will to face the situation in those who make decisions as our representatives in government. As Roald Hoffmann points out. In a democracy the voters make the decisions.

Professor Doherty wrote  A Light History of Hot Air, published by the University of Melbourne Press, 2007. Each chapter crosses 'the divide'. Each chapter is the work of this immunologist who is bringing his humanity and the breadth and depth of his knowledge to the general reader.   He concludes 'Beacons: On Alexander the Great and the Hatteras Light' with this statement: 'Beacons for human progress like the United Nations, global treaties that preserve the air and the oceans, accords that respond to the rights and needs of persecuted women and children, and the international courts of justice that bring criminals at every level to account do not always burn as brightly as they should. We need to work out how to enhance such positive flames, to clean the lenses that focus the twin beams of the intellect and moral consciousness that protect the human family.' - my italics EAJ - [p 175]