By Nicholas Perry
As I discussed in my first blog, How technology can shape the world, I mentioned that Webster Dictionary defines technology as “a manner of accomplishing a task especially using technical processes, methods, or knowledge”. I also elaborated that any mechanical advancements could be viewed as technology, as such, we’re going to take a look at one industry that is vital to human growth-education. I will discuss the education used by early human settlers and well as more modern- day implications.
When we were children, the first thing we most likely learnt, after we could walk and talk, is counting and numbers, all societies have different counting systems. One of whom were te hebrew which had an alphabetic quasi-decimal system in which the hebrew letters are used. Another one was was the egyptian numeral system in which the used hieroglyphs up to ten any after that used the powers of ten. Some Of my favorite counting systems were the central american countings between 14 century A.D and 16 century A.D; the mayan, incas, and aztecs, their counting systems were quite similar to the egyption, but unlike the egiptian, both the aztecs and mayan had more cartoon-ish depictions, and Incas counting system did not include any depictions at all, they counted numbers via knots called quipus. In relation to technology or “mechanical knowledge, this played an instrumental role in the world of not only in counting, but math, because it allowed people to count to higher numbers.
Another way technology has effected education of our world is by theorizing ideas and, therefore, revolutionizing the way the world sees and perceive these things which are incorporated in classrooms. One famous example is Albert Einstein. Einstein was a German physicist born on March 14, 1879 and developed the theories of relativity. His first experience of memorizing wonders came when he saw a needle of a compass moved by an invisible force.
That was an instrumental moment for Einstein because it would fuel his life with wonder and innovation.When he was 16, Einstein wrote a paper called The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields, later on, he theorized gravity and it’s amazing effects.
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