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Well as much as i wish i could deny it, i am one of those people who was completely awed by hollywood and seventeen magazines and the like.
Science is something ive come to take for granted. While i was reading this article, i was talking to a friend back in india and thats when i realized that if it wasnt for science id still be yearning to go back ... Science has made me less homesick, and suddenly science doesnt seem to be a frightening and unreal prospective.
When my oarents, aunts and uncles and grandparents tell me about their generation and how we are so fortunate, i roll my eyes.. How could they have lived in a world of limited technology ? It seems absurd to live without e-mail.
and then you realize, that its so much deeper than frivolous technology that we have become addicted to. its the machines that cure a hundred thousand people, that give people the hope to live, the machines that look so formidable are things that we must embrace.
And yet, on the flip side, when Bombay experienced a 9 degree celcius winter last december, we knew that global warming wasnt just an excessively used word.Its actually happening, science has taken over our world and our lives, and also teaches us responsibility to some extent. We have the power to improve , and also the power to destroy. Science is, in itself, the most complex juxtaposition.
Moving to something i read above, i too am from India, and the system certainly has many a flaw, but then again, it depends on the student. Perhaps oppurtunities are limited, but it would be wrong to say that they are absent. so on that note urvi, i disagree.
I too did science only upto tenth grade, and tortured by the complicated physics and math that i did not understand, i did not pursue it furthur. However, mr. Franklin, with no offense meant, Americans do have to fear the indian because India is boming with change. The IIT sector, technology, developement, computer, you name it and there are successful Indians in every field, ready to take over with their knowledge.Sometimes we are in such awe of the west that we fail to reach out and grab whats in front of our face. And there is change in the education system as well.
Science, was something i feared and still do. If i do not know and understand A ( math and physics) , will i be able to move on to B ( well, in this case intro to bio) ? But if anything, this article has made me realixze that there are things beyond my realm of understanding, things that i blissfully unaware of, and things which i would love to know about.
So, at the risk of being disloyal to the Humanities, i'd say im ready to take it on!