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Why is scientific temperament important in students?

♦️India is the first and only country to explicitly adopt scientific temper in its constitution. In the forty-second amendment in 1976, Article 51 A(h) was added under the Fundamental Duties that states: [It shall be the duty of every citizen of India] To develop scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform. Six pillars of Scientific Tempers are :-  (1) Scientific Literacy  (ii) Scientific attitudes  (iii)Scientific thinking  (iv)Scientific method  (v) Scientific perception  (vi) scientific habit.  (singh S J,2019). These factors are taken as for measuring scientific temper. Why is scientific temperament important in students? Scientific temper of our students help them to be open-minded, rational, objective, persistent, having ability to accept criticism & to revise their beliefs as per new evidences Eight components of scientific temper viz.   Healthy Scepticism,  Objective Intellectual honesty,  Rationality , ...