POOR SCIENTIFIC PEDAGOGY AND DILUTED SCIENTIFIC TEMPER !
Some days back there was a media report about intellectual and academic propriety of indian universities.That not a single indian institute of higher learning figures in top 100 ranking of world universities is a poor comment on the quality of education and research in the country.An even greater tragedy is that majority segment of Indian students today consider the academic credentials only as academic streams to high paying corporate careers.The ground situation is not different for non corporate careers.Exclusive focus on producing degree holders and lack of meritocracy kills scientific innovation and research.Not surprisingly Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has sarcastically described recently held Indian science Congress as circus where very little science was discussed.
It is generally believed that academic excellence leads to all round intellectual development ,essential for research based innovation,but ironically enough,the ground situation is horribly different.India today is teeming with millions of men and women who are beneficiaries modern science and technology but paradoxically majority segment lacks scientific temper in their respective practice and perception.The scientific correctness of these men and women is just opposed to scientific temper or critical thinking which subjects metaphysical assumptions of inherited traditions to a scientific scrutiny.BJP Government is encouraging trend to treat all scientific innovation as if they are simply a restatement of much publicized 'ancient scientific wisdom'.Without any worthwhile contribution of their own,it is order of the day to connect all scientific development to 'eternal' Hindu tradition and claim it to be a product of their own native genius since the beginning of time.
Vice President Hamid Ansari has quite rightly highlighted the dearth of scientific temper in the country.He has further observed that intolerance towards attempts to separate belief from scientifically verified facts leads to the occult being dubbed as scientific.
Some days back there was a media report about intellectual and academic propriety of indian universities.That not a single indian institute of higher learning figures in top 100 ranking of world universities is a poor comment on the quality of education and research in the country.An even greater tragedy is that majority segment of Indian students today consider the academic credentials only as academic streams to high paying corporate careers.The ground situation is not different for non corporate careers.Exclusive focus on producing degree holders and lack of meritocracy kills scientific innovation and research.Not surprisingly Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has sarcastically described recently held Indian science Congress as circus where very little science was discussed.
It is generally believed that academic excellence leads to all round intellectual development ,essential for research based innovation,but ironically enough,the ground situation is horribly different.India today is teeming with millions of men and women who are beneficiaries modern science and technology but paradoxically majority segment lacks scientific temper in their respective practice and perception.The scientific correctness of these men and women is just opposed to scientific temper or critical thinking which subjects metaphysical assumptions of inherited traditions to a scientific scrutiny.BJP Government is encouraging trend to treat all scientific innovation as if they are simply a restatement of much publicized 'ancient scientific wisdom'.Without any worthwhile contribution of their own,it is order of the day to connect all scientific development to 'eternal' Hindu tradition and claim it to be a product of their own native genius since the beginning of time.
Vice President Hamid Ansari has quite rightly highlighted the dearth of scientific temper in the country.He has further observed that intolerance towards attempts to separate belief from scientifically verified facts leads to the occult being dubbed as scientific.
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