Gupta, Arvind
(2009)
Making things, doing things.
Learning Curve (12).
pp. 13-15.
Abstract
Good science need not be expensive. It can also be great fun.
The best Indian book on primary science,
Preparation for Science, dates back to 1928.
It was written by Richard Greggs - an American
economist who was deeply inspired by Mahatma
Gandhi. For two years Greggs taught activity-based
science in a school in Himachal Pradesh run by the
American missionary, S. E. Stokes. This remains the
most pioneering treatise on how science should be with
taught to children in Indian schools.The apparatus required is exceedingly simple and
inexpensive, and almost all of it is familiar to
village children. Most of it can be made by village
carpenters, potters or blacksmiths. n
must not get an idea that science is m
strange technology. The great pioneers of scie
their work with very simple apparatus.
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