Version imprimableEvolution teaches children that change is an opportunity, erasing it from NCERT textbooks is huge disservice
To deprive students of learning evolution is to deprive them of a powerful
concept that brings great order and coherence to our understanding of life
Partha P Majumder
April 25, 2023
Some extraordinary events in understanding science and imparting science
education have taken place in the last month or so. We have known that our
eye is a complex organ and enables us to see. The quality of life of those
who cannot see is hugely compromised. How did such a complex organ come to be? On April 10, we learnt that a gene donated to us by bacteria has enabled us to see. More about that later.
On April 20, about 2,000 scientists including me, *wrote to the Government
of India to repeal some recommendations of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) about high-school science education that have been implemented. The NCERT had recommended in May 2022 some sweeping
