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SCIENCE THROUGH TECHNICAL EDUCATION 1. WHAT IS SCIENCE? Why do we want to teach science to school students and if possible, to every one? Science is a body of knowledge obtained through the use of the scientific methodology; and it is this methodology that we want to teach, so that people can use it to solve problems in everyday life and gain more knowledge on their own. So, when we talk of teaching science, we actually want to teach the methodology and concepts of science rather than a package of information. This methodology involves observation, measurement, recording, classification, comparison, and recognising patterns, making a hypothesis, and then testing the hypothesis by experiment. This methodology has proved to be very fruitful because it depends on deriving information from action in the real life world. This is different from other methods, which depend on "truths" stated by an authority and accepted blindly by subordinates. Very often, these truths relate to situations where the veracity is difficult to test. In this paper, I want to make the following points: 1. The above scientific methodology is very similar to the learning Rural Development Through Education System 138