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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 for three reasons: 1) It provides perspective on how present science came to be and guides our current and future learning in science. 2) Examining the interdependent effects of factors like geography, trade, education, and culture reveals how they shaped our scientific disciplines and advances. 3) In particular, the Spanish colonization of the Philippines influenced the country's early technology and establishment of an education system focused on religion, which impacted technology promotion and research.

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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 for three reasons: 1) It provides perspective on how present science came to be and guides our current and future learning in science. 2) Examining the interdependent effects of factors like geography, trade, education, and culture reveals how they shaped our scientific disciplines and advances. 3) In particular, the Spanish colonization of the Philippines influenced the country's early technology and establishment of an education system focused on religion, which impacted technology promotion and research.

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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 CEIT-03-103A


TRILLES, Franz Miguel Xavier I.

CEIT-03-103A

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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 socio-

cultural 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-of-

science-and-technology-in-the-philippines-1.pdf

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