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and is compulsory to all the students upto high school classes; its teaching starts in the form of enviropmental studies including natural physical sciences upto middle classes, whereas as separate subjects like Physics Chemistry, Biology etc. in high school classes. In higher secondary classes the teaching of science subjects are not compulsory and students may join academic or vocational courses and one of the fields from academic courses like sciences, social science, commerce and agriculture. Science and Social Life
The conditions of life have changed to a great extent due to modern technological developments and demanding a corresponding changes in the teaching of science at all levels. The existing crisis due to mutual destruction, jealousy, fear, hatred and lust of power exhibited sometimes in the form of wars and conflicts, supports the idea that our education, fails in perpetuating values of life. So we have to change our education to make it more useful which will also streng then and perpetuate the values of life. Here, I would like to refer the words of Mahatma Gandhi. By education I mead an all round drawing out of the best in a child and man body, mind and spirt, the literacy is nor the beginning neither the end of education but it is only one of the means whereby man and woman can be educated'. Vinoba an other Indian social reformer says' A child ought to be educated that he is competent to come forward and serve the world around him". Richard Living-Stone, a British educationist observed that a real modern problem is to humanize human, to show him the spiritual ideals without which neither happiness nor success are genuine or permanent. The education should develop various physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual aspects of the personality of the pupils which can be done by giving more stress on the development of healthy habits, traits, right attitudes, values, skills and interests among the pupils in our teaching.
Social, Cultural and Ethical Aspects of Science
Science is an organised knowledge of the the laws of things, evolved due to ipventive attitude of human thinking. The study of scientific concept includes observation, experimentation, hypothesis, conclusion, etc. and aimed to search truth. It is a creation of human spirit just as much as religion, art or literature. Thus science is an essential part of humanities. The process of acquiring and transferring tbis knowledge from one person to another, may be teacher to students is influenced by various sociol,cultural and etnical
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