This article discusses the author's observation that in his thirty-plus years in academics, many students who, by natural ability, interest, and work ethic, should have performed well in the sciences, but performed poorly. Many of these students are operating at the bottom rungs of Bloom's taxonomy (ladder), while college professors and industrial employers need these students to operate at the upper rungs of this ladder. Unfortunately, many students graduate from high school, and even college, without realizing that levels of thinking above memorization and basic comprehension exist.