Why Is It Important To Study The Development Of History Of Science And Technology

Why is it important to study the development of history of science and technology?

The history of science and technology made us realize that there is always a reason for the existence of one thing. As people get conscious and curious new discoveries was born. The history of technology teaches us how creative people acquire knowledge about the world and use it to fulfill human needs. As technology quickly grows the history serves as a beginning knowledge to those people who is new to it. It tells us about how natural world works and lead us to perplexity. The history of technology reminds us of the limits of our knowledge. Technology is defined as application of our knowledge the history of technology is not just a time table of events, but an access to human progress. When it goes to science the history of it allows us to sight the history of the whole world and how we discovered everything from it. As we know how those people made new discoveries, we are enabling our minds to think further and go outside the box of our knowledge, discover other things and innovations to the present discoveries. From learning the history of science and technology, we understand more how the world functions and we learned to appreciate the struggles and greatness of those people who contributes in the development of the world. It is greatly important to learn the development of history of science and technology because science and technology takes a big role that will contribute extreme knowledge and help to the society and for the next generations of people. Rodrigo Paolo M. Escuadra

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TRILLES, Franz Miguel Xavier I. CEIT-03-103A Word count: 402 Why is it important to study the development of history of science and technology?

Studying the development of the history of Science and Technology is important because investigating the chronology of events and analyzing the interdependent effects of geography, colonial trade, economic and educational policies and sociocultural factors will determine the shape of the evolution of present Science and Technology which affect the path of our learning in Science. Delving into the chronology of events will grant us perspective on how present Science came to be which will also conduct our learning path. By knowing how present Science came to be, we will realize our current understanding of Science and we’ll know where to focus on in the future. The interdependent effects of geography, colonial trade, economic and educational policies and socio-cultural factors form our scientific discipline and gradually build the paradigm of our future scientific advances. The Spanish colonization in the Philippines, as an example, tells us that our technology during this period is inclined with early Spanish tech. Our government and education was formed with a great contribution from the Spaniards. Their religious orders played a major role in the establishment of the colonial educational system which influenced the development of

technology and promotion of scientific research in the Philippines. Primary education, qualified teachers and educational paraphernalia were appointed to missionaries and parish priests (Caoili, p. 8). Higher education was provided by schools set up by the different religious orders in the urban centers, most of them in Manila. The Jesuits founded in Cebu City the Colegio de San Ildefonso (1595) and in Manila, the Colegio de San Ignacio (1595), the Colegio de San Jose (1601) and the Ateneo de Manila (1859). The Dominicans had the Colegio de San Juan de Letran (1640). Access to these schools was, however, limited to the elite of the colonial society -- the European-born and local Spaniards, the mestizos and a few native Filipinos. Courses leading to the B.A. degree, were given which by the nineteenth century included science subjects such as physics, chemistry, natural history and mathematics. (Caoili, p. 8). On the whole, however, higher education was pursued for the priesthood or for clerical positions in the colonial administration. It was only during the latter part of the nineteenth century that technical/vocational schools were established by the Spaniards (Caoili, p. 8). In conclusion and in simpler terms, studying the development of history of Science and guides us in learning and pursuing science with our system based on the totality of what we have learned about from primitive to present era.

Citations: Caoili, O. C. (n.d.). A HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE PHILIPPINES. Retrieved from file:///C:/Users/hp/Downloads/kupdf.net_47b-history-ofscience-and-technology-in-the-philippines-1.pdf