Scientific family
Dr. Moyra McDeal is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at a famous university in Canada. In an international conference on science and technology held in July 2002 at the congress hall in Ottawa, she introduced herself as member of a scientific family. She belongs to a five member family and a scientific happy couple. All members in her family are scientifically qualified. She was discussing on scientific advancement drawing examples from her own family. She tried to show how scientific couple can enhance the efforts of developing scientific family and scientific community in a country. It was a unique presentation for learning and picking ideas particularly for participants attending from developing countries. After a long gap of seven years, Dr. Moyra's suggestions seem very effective for us all.
From my personal scientific attachment, it is worth mentioning that we are a scientific couple and our family consists of five members. There was no pre-plan about education and profession of our son and daughters. We gave them the priority for selection. But our kids have automatically become scientifically qualified.
Dr. Moyra suggested that if you want to develop scientific culture in your country, create as many scientific families as you can. We are now the citizens of digital Bangladesh and we need all families to be scientific, i.e. scientifically literate to enjoy the benefits of digital Bangladesh fully.
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