Europe during the time of renaissance between 14th and 16th centuries developed their art and culture. Then followed by scientific developments, which gave rise to building of large ships to cross oceans. Crossing large oceans rewarded them with finding of new land which made new imbalance in the world economics.
Asia in general and China and India in particular reduced to no where in world economics. Asia minus Japan hasn't made any new discoveries after the European started colonization.
The changes were indication that continuous progress in the field of science and technology is vital for progress and domination of any community. Finland a small country in Europe is popular with the world famous product "Nokia". Denmark with "Dancall".
We Indians especially the Tamils, show very little interest toward science subjects. Some think they must offer Tamil for the public examinations because they studied Tamil in Primary schools for six years and they continue to offer. Some think the Tamil Language increases their employment opportunity especially as Tamil Teachers.
If a science student offers Tamil in public examinations and qualifies as engineers or technocrats their contribution can be even higher. An Example, SMS in Tamil. Who could have found it? Must be, by the same type of persons, who studied soft ware engineering and Tamil Language. Who would have found the Tamil word processing soft ware. The same types of people are who found Tamil SMS.
Their contribution towards modernisation of language and culture could be higher.
With that I always encourage Tamil medium students to qualify for science stream and offer Tamil at public examinations. Then go for highly skill industries like nanotechnology, there use their mother tongue.
Persons from South Asia those who won their Noble prize wrote their scientific discoveries in English but the Germans and the Japanese wrote their reports in their own mother tongue.
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Actually god gave us some individual ability. But at times we will not get the opportunity to polish the ability. Back in 2002 i was a technical product exec where i have to analyse samples of rubber gloves on their tolerance to human skin. I was in charge of asia pacific. I was given this opportunity by a nice chinese man. But the opportunity came because of my hardworking ability and english proficiency. Late last year i was offered to do research at nus. How many of this students have the desire to hunt for this opportunites. How many are given the opportunity. How many are capable. Since i started teaching science i started pulling students for state level competition like rocket launching and robotic. But i don't discriminate ability. Today students are not given the opportunity except for competition involving english. I know of a few friends who developed sms in tamil. But it was not marketable.
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