Scientific literacy is knowing basic facts and concepts about science and having an understanding of how science works.

Scientific literacy is knowing basic facts and concepts about science and having an understanding of how science works. Participate in this discussion topic to debate the following questions: Is it valuable for a country to have citizens that are well versed in the sciences? Why has this become so important in the last two decades?

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Scientific litracy is important in today's world . In a country , where people are aware of basic science knowledge , is good for its devlopement. For example ,for a person ,who involves in farming, basic earth acience is good so that he has good ideas about farming. In last two decades science and technology has devloped by a rapid rate and in forthcoming decades it's going to devlope by exponential rate . In today's life we are surrounded by techonology. Wrcan take examples like our washing machines, ac,mmobile phones,in agriculture we use machines ,we use chemicals.we are surrounded by such things whose base must be known to us.

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