The Value of Scientific Education

In ancient times, education meant literary education only. Grammar philosophy and literature comprised the syllabus teaching of astronomy and medicine was neither scientific nor comprehensive. Now the teaching of science has become very important.

Science teaches us to see things as they are. It lays stress not on form but facts. Science has also taught us to win control over the forces of nature and turn them to our use. Epidemics have been controlled through the beneficent forces of science. Above all, sciences have given us a new outlook on life.

Science has a great achievement of science in the field of peace. Scientific education does not mean knowledge of scientific inventions. That is only a part of it.

Its real purpose is to create a scientific attitude in students. We look at things through the prism of our feelings. This distorts the shape of things. Science teaches us how to take a detached view of things.

In Pakistan, we need engineers and technicians for our factories and to run our industrial plants. We want doctors and chemists to combat disease. Scientific education gives us a wider outlook on life.