#NCERT #Darwin #PeriodicTable #Evolution

Been reading the commotion about Periodic Table and Evolution moving to a later level in Primary/Secondary Education.

Overall the concern around this is exaggerated & shrill disappointing.

Lets take a step back & examine the issue.

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In the Karnataka State Syllabus, for decades, Periodic Table was a touch & go in the high school. It was discussed very deep only in the 11/12 - PUC.

Have generations of students turned out dumb? Have they come superstitious? Are they confusing religious accounts for Science?

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Has’nt the State championed the cause of Science, Technology? In particular, is not the average society more aware of Science & Tech?

Haven’t they even joined the bandwagon of Progress & Development?

Have they collapsed into some abyss from which they need to be uplifted?

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S’rly, do we think that if a majority of Students dont read a chapter or a few paragraphs on Evolution they will altogether become with an appreciation of Science? Will they become Superstitious?

When the more Science aligned champion Evolution wont it flow into the society?

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Do we think that we need to study Evolution as a Theory explicitly only then students develop an appreciation of Evolution & not otherwise?

If you look into the ordering of chapters in Biology in 8-10, isn’t it obvious that the very organization champions ‘Evolution Theory’?

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More than anything else,

- Do we think Evolution and Periodic Table being crammed in early years will significantly uplift the Scientific Temper of our nation?

- Do we think we will produce world class Scientists and Engineers by that? I

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Do we think that Evolution and Periodic Table are more important than abridged versions of Ashtadhyayi, Yoga Sutras, Rasa Theory to create a healthy society?

Do we think that a whopping majority of the Society require Evolution/PT as exclusive Chapters in place os YS & RT?

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We can still argue the best place/level/standard when we should introduce/have exclusive chapters for PT & Evolution.

But to slip into a trauma with their positional movement is to suffer loss of originality. We are just giving into a psychological test thrust upon us.

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Evolution is still one of the best intellectual triumphs of humanity. It explains a dimension of life like nothing else. Yet, it is an exaggeration to say that not studying this early or even all not knowing this results in a catastrophe.

Not knowing Rasa Framework hurts.

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I have my own reasons to introduce Periodic Table earlier than 9th.

Its organization was influenced by the Sanskrit Alphabet organization. ITs not only a matter of pride for us. It signifies that different domains influence each other through their Ideas/Intellectuality.

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But to say that explicit cramming of PT is essential early is to ignore that concepts/ideas underlying the PT organization when taught in earlier school - it suffices.

It helps you develop the ability to appreciate PT more in later years.

Everybody anyway does not need PT.

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Hence, we need to stop suffering inferiority imposed upon us and viewing Science as a religion.

When we view Science as a method, discipline, instrument of life that brings out certain dimensions of Truth and place it in the larger universe of knowledge

… Only then we will begin to shape a better education for our Society.

Lets not suffer emotional crisis that is not our own. We dont have to prove ourselves to be Scientific to others.

We need to have a better appreciation of what is Knowledge and when is what required.

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