Thursday, October 11, 2007

A lot of Neil Armstrong, Suneeta Williams and Kalpana Chawla to come!

I think “Play and Learn” is the best policy for educating children. But this facility is denied to the children of developing countries due to lack of financial resources to encourage innovations and lack of technological awareness too. That is why in the developing countries children grow up by reading books only without any practical knowledge and without any real fun. We believe in scientific principles which are told verbally to us by our teachers since our childhood but in most of the social case we do not get the facility to test such principles and see ourselves how they work! For example, we know that rockets move by action reaction forces according to Sir Isaac Newton’s third of motion but we did not have the opportunity to build even a small play model rocket to see it with our own eyes. Books have been our sole educators!

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But children in developed counties are blessed to have a practical demonstrator like Hobby Warehouse.com. This site has an incredible collection of interesting yet educative and entertaining toys in the form of RC Helicopters and cars, tanks and military vehicles, telescopes, trains and obviously rockets with rocket accessories and kits. Even, some of these rockets are provided with digital video to give you the real effect of the typical NASA ventures of taking photographs of soil in Mars!


Even these toys help to create and develop budding scientists by providing rocket accessories to help them create their own rockets. I want these developments in my country for my next generation. I hope the nation will produce toys that would be affordable too without sacrificing quality!

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