Abstract:
The National policy on education (1986) in para 1.10 clearly states "In the Indian way of thinking, a human being is a positive asset and a precious national resource which needs to be cherished nurtured and developed with tenderness and care, coupled with dynamism. Each individual growth presents a different range of problems and requirements at every stage of education in this complex and dynamic growth process needs to be planned meticulously and executed with great sensitivity". Singh,(1998) stated that a child, being an adult in the making is a precious national resource which needs to be moulded and nurtured in order to make him/her functional component of the scientifically concious emerging society of India. To achieve this the child has to be introduced to the scientific culture right from the elementary stage (P-3).
