Ways of Acquiring Scientific Knowledge

Abstract

Education is a lifelong phenomenon that runs from cradle to death in forms of teaching, training, preaching, and exemplifying. It has two major phases as core (fundamental) and higher (advanced) education. The core education goes from birth to adolescence and its purpose is to train the individuals to gain the custom of not to harm anybody. The higher education runs from adolescence to death with the intention of gaining attitudes of becoming a useful citizen. Society is demanding smart people who can adapt to changing world. This requires lifelong learning skills to be infused into individuals through design and research. Design is integration of knowledge to devise products to satisfy the needs. Research is a scholarly investigation to increase knowledge whose success highly depends upon the systematic approach in the sequence of work and imagination of the researcher. Yet, it should always be remembered that the research is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration.