Very few students have really any clear idea of what
science means. The teaching of science in school tends to obscure the meaning
of science when pupils at school work for a pass in science subject they regard
it their main business to learn a large number of facts and a smaller number of
principles and theories. Now all this is good in its way. A scientist must have
a certain number of facts, principles and theories at his finger tips. But
science would cease to be science if scientist merely worked from fixed sets of
facts and theories. The essence of science is the gathering of new facts and
establishment of new theories. Science has advanced rapidly in recent history
because scientist have been greedy for the new knowledge, and because they have
been so ready to disbelieve in text book for their youth.
It is,therefore, most important to give our young
students of science an awareness of skepticism and open-mindedness that is part
of the very soul of science. Let them not thing that any branch of science is a
subject that one can sit down and learn.Let them realize that science is
essentially a creative activity.
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