Reaction Paper : Retrospect/Mind Museum Talk

From the facts that the mind movers of Mind Museum presented, it is evident that knowledge about science in our country is lacking. Moreover, we are lagging behind other countries also because of our economic situation being a third world country. Their proposal is simple, that we should start with basic awareness about different aspects in science before we go to technical details. This simplistic way appears to deal with the problem by targeting the root cause of poor proficiency in science, that is our basic knowledge and grounds that should be learned when we were younger. Facilities like the Mind Museum may greatly help increase our awareness about science in our everyday lives and spark our curiosity to learn more about it beyond the museum and the classrooms. However, I also think that what should really be dealt with is our curriculum for basic education. Though being curious is a great thing to start with, without proper and enough education about the subject matter in school might lead to just simple awareness or even wrong information from self-studied materials which are neither reliable nor updated. If we reform our curriculum and also promote more science high schools and even science grade schools in a third world country like ours, the next generations will benefit from it. In the long run we might also already achieve to be at par with other countries. Yes, museums like the Mind Museum are helpful but it is not enough to provide a solution to the problem of the education in our country.

Sy, Danica

2013-50915