Most kids are beat over the head with the scientific method from elementary school all the way through high school. I certainly never took a science class that didn't discuss it in some capacity - maybe chemistry. Problem is, most really don't understand it and aren't taught to understand it. They simply come to learn it as a series of four steps and may understand that it helps to limit bias, yadda yadda.Again.. it just goes back to understanding the scientific method. It's a great way to learn about logic and theory, and intellectual exchange of ideas.. design a hypothesis or a theory, improve theories.. constantly test them. If you don't really agree with some aspect of evolution.. guess what?
Science is taught as truth and fact, when it's really more of an approach for understanding the world. Our education system gives kids the mistaken impression that science is a series of discoveries, like we're climbing some ladder to enlightment. The truth is of course different. No time is really spent discussing how experiments don't prove hypotheses, that science is fallible, or that ideas supported by science are not absolute and can change.
Most are blissfully unaware that the "scientific method" you're championing is a highly oversimplified representation of how science really works, that science doesn't actually "prove" anything, and that science isn't inherently objective, but is critically dependent on a robust and diverse community.
Most don't know how unscientific words such as "consensus," "established," and "proven," are.