Pedro Morales

ENGL 101A CRN 21193/4

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Prof Simon
08 September 2017

A real change in the Ecuadorian education

The development of science in the world has brought complete changes in the education.

Countries in all over the world have adapted to economics, transportation, and education, but,

what happens with Latin America? Ecuador, a South American country has not grown in

sciences like physics, mathematics, and chemistry. This country needs a real change in its

education to be successful in these fields.

Science production is important in all over the world. Countries like the United States,

Germany, Japan, and China are aware of this and they have been working on the problem for

many years. American students have the opportunity to get into the best universities for science,

engineering, and technology, such as the California Institute of Technology or UC Berkeley, the

other countries also have excellent universities for many majors in the STEM category, and they

have reached big developments such Caltech working with NASA and others. They got

everything because they know progress is achieved with education. Education is the most

powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. (Nelson Mandela).

Ecuador has really good universities. An example of this is San Francisco University and

the University of Cuenca. These two universities have prizes for excellence. The University of

Cuenca won the Matilde Hidalgo prize for the best campus and law faculty in the country. But

are the Ecuadorian universities working on science production? The answer is no, because, the

best colleges dont have majors in the field. If a student wants to study physics or mathematics,
he or she will have to travel to another city or country to get that education and whether this

person returns to the country and he or she will be not able to find a wide variety of jobs. At least

Ecuador has two universities with physics and mathematics majors, The National Polytechnic

School and San Francisco University, both of them have good agreements with International

laboratories and important colleges like Freie University of Berlin and important laboratories

such as CERN, which is the most important place for studying the physics of the smallest things

in the universe, and they have gotten good chances for the future scientist and engineers in there.

For example, San Francisco University sent two students to get into the research of the new

Higgs boson, a transcendental discovery in the field of physics. A country needs these people

because they work and solve the social problems like transportation. If a city has a lot of traffic it

would be better to find a new way of getting around.

Why does a country need to have scientists? Because Science is important for a better

community and a better economic growth. As we can see in the global world history, the

industrial revolution played a great role in the development of many countries. Scientific

advances like the train, steamboat, roads brought the better life and a good way to get more

products from different parts of the world in less time. That was a transcendental fact about the

world history. Also, the scientific research has a good price for the world. Many of the

advantages can be used for others, it is important to get the best way to expand the new

knowledge scientists have gotten in their works. A good choice to do this is to send the paper or

thesis to a very important magazine in the field, we can find many of them such as Science, and

Latin America has also many acclaimed magazines like Alea, which is written and edited in

Brazil, there is Revista Brasileira de Ciencia do Solo: Brazilian Society for Soil Science. A

scientist is able to work in many areas of knowledge. A physicist is able to work in medicine
when a person got cancer, they worked with radiological protection that is about the dose a

person need of therapy. Physicists have done a real good work on this field because they have

developed many instruments to fight the diseases.

In conclusion, Science is really important for the development of a country. It has to be

one of the firsts priorities of people because it will give an economic growth and a better place

for the human being, everywhere we are. Countries can achieve better medicine, better cities and

more with all the discoveries of Science. That is why people should be aware of the necessity of

a real change in the education to get a real change in our community.