![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Up to this point, I feel bothered by the fact that I can’t specifically remember any of the experiments we did. Experiments were indeed sporadic, and most of the time, we only had one per quarter. We were given tasks, and we were obligated to present our answers to the class. Most of our classes involved group presentations with our ever-reliable Manila paper and black markers. We did this two to three times a week, alongside the signature “shh” sounds that the monitor makes in order to prevent the class from being too noisy. Unfortunately, that never happened.Ī large chunk of our science classes were not necessarily “classes.” Most of them sadly revolved around being the fastest pupil to copy all the words on the board. I always thought that even the simple lesson of introducing such glassware and demonstrating how to use them would be really exciting. Would it be any better if we just let such resources collect dust on the shelves? Our teacher always explained that these items were ‘fragile’ and not suitable for children’s use. As a child, I really wondered why we never used them. For one, our section NEVER used the glassware in our classrooms. They had science quotes posted on the walls, a solar system model attached to the ceiling, diorama projects on different ecosystems, a life-size human skeletal model, shelves of science textbooks, and even laboratory glassware donated by alumni.Īll of these things in our classroom created the impression that our science classes were good and fun, but that’s not how it works. Unlike most of my batchmates who endured the agony of staying in bland classrooms, my section’s classrooms through the years were actually good. I belonged to the special science class, the top section of the batch as perceived by most teachers. Forty to fifty students clustered in a classroom, staying in school from 8 am to 4 pm, patiently going through all their subjects in one day. If you’re part of the majority of the population that went through their elementary education in a public school like me, you would easily recall the atmosphere of such an environment. ![]() Science in public schools: a personal experience It is worth noting that most of these definitions all emphasize the notion that science is merely equivalent to knowledge, which for a six-year-old kid can just mean a huge depot of facts and trivia. In fact, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (2018) hosts a multitude of its conceived definitions, including “the state of knowing which distinguishes from ignorance,” “a departmentalized and systematized knowledge as an object of study,” and “a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws as obtained from the scientific method.” (Updated on December 5, 2019) Science has been defined in a plethora of ways since the scientific revolution, dating back to the 17 th century. ![]()
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