{"id":53490,"date":"2019-10-26T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=53490"},"modified":"2019-10-26T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T10:00:16","slug":"answered-schools-in-india-has-failed-in-inculcating-scientific-spirit-and-rational-temper-among-indians-critically-analyse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-schools-in-india-has-failed-in-inculcating-scientific-spirit-and-rational-temper-among-indians-critically-analyse\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] \u201cSchools in India has failed in inculcating scientific spirit and rational temper among Indians\u201d. Critically analyse."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction. <\/strong>What is scientific temper?
Body. <\/strong>Give some facts reflecting poor scientific temper in India. What are the reasons for failure of schools to develop the scientific temper?
Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Scientific Temper represents spirit of enquiry and as such involves the process of logical reasoning. Recent incidents of divorcing a frog couple to the floods in Madhya Pradesh after their grand wedding two months ago, for rains indicate that scientific temper as was mentioned in Article 51A as a fundamental duty has not been achieved even after 70 years of growth and development. One of the reason for this is poor education system and inability of our schools to inculcate scientific values in students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facts reflecting poor scientific temper\nin India:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, the vision of the\nConstitution to develop \u2018scientific temper\u2019 has lost, which can be inferred by\nfollowing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Recently a frog was divorced as they were\nmarried in hope of giving rains.<\/li>
  2. Rationalist thinkers like Kalburgi, Dabholkar\nand Pansare were killed for their crusade against superstition and orthodoxy in\nsociety.<\/li>
  3. As per NCRB data, between 2005 and 2015, more\nthan 2000 women were killed in India following allegations of witchcraft.<\/li>
  4. Prevalence of \u2018God-men\u2019 catering to the educated\nmiddle class who even spread their superstitious ideas through media and social\nmedia is a glaring example of pseudo-scientific society.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Reasons for failure of schools to\ndevelop the scientific temper:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Wrote learning: <\/strong>Schools and curriculum\nfocus on wrote learning. Indian schools focus on exams and marks (factory\napproach) rather than thinking and reasoning.<\/li>
    2. Focus on getting jobs: <\/strong>The Indian\neducation system is evolving into a platform of gaining employment rather than\ngaining knowledge. This restricts the spirit of enquiry.<\/li>
    3. Poor teaching: <\/strong>Teaching and learning\nmethods used in most schools discourage questioning, learning, application and\ncreativity. Also teachers are less qualified and not interested in teaching.<\/li>
    4. Illiterate parents: <\/strong>Still millions of\npeople are illiterate. About 25% Indians areilliterate. This is a major\nhindrance to developing an attitude of scientific temper in Indians. Driven by\npressing short-term economic needs, most parents are reluctant to send their\nchildren to school. They often pose obstacles to learning. <\/li>
    5. Poverty:<\/strong> Poor background push people to\nseek jobs and focus on jobs and earning rather than learning. Winning bread to\ncome out of poverty is major focus.<\/li>
    6. Women backwardness:<\/strong> Indian women are\nstill not fully empowered. And empowered educated women is must to instil a\nscientific temper among its children and in the house.<\/li>
    7. Religion: <\/strong>Often the structural rigidities\nhave their roots in religion. This religious roots makes it a daunting task as\nthere are high chances of communal tension flaring up when these rigidities are\nchallenged.<\/li>
    8. Orthodox Society: <\/strong>The orthodox elements\nof the Indian society restrict the inquisitiveness among the children. Thus the\nspirit of enquiry gets buried in childhood itself.<\/li>
    9. Attitude:<\/strong> Even the educated blindly\nfollow the norms and superstitions due to lack of spirit of enquiry. This\nresults in growing of superstitions blindly and it is trickling down from\ngeneration to generation.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      In our country, where a large section of the society is still caught in the quagmire of superstitions and obscurantist practices, inculcating Scientific Temper among the citizens is of paramount importance for development of the nation. This is best done during the childhood and is therefore essential that the school curriculum should serve this important need. This demands inculcation of values like spirit of inquiry, courage to question, objectivity, honesty and truthfulness, which are precursors to the development of various traits characterising Scientific Temper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Demand of the question Introduction. What is scientific temper? Body. Give some facts reflecting poor scientific temper in India. What are the reasons for failure of schools to develop the scientific temper? Conclusion. Way forward. Scientific Temper represents spirit of enquiry and as such involves the process of logical reasoning. Recent incidents of divorcing a… Continue reading [Answered] \u201cSchools in India has failed in inculcating scientific spirit and rational temper among Indians\u201d. Critically analyse.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":49132,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-53490","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}