ABSTRACT
It is quite impossible to separate education in any particular era from the political, economic, industrial, commercial and social developments in that age and in any particular country. During the nineteenth century scientific and technical education gradually evolved and increased in importance, largely as a result of the political and industrial revolutions which had spread throughout Europe. Life and philosophy can change society: and society can change life and philosophy. Steam and electrical power did more than revolutionize modes of transport: they changed men's minds, the way they thought and believed. Mechanical devices in turn led to mechanistic forms of thinking; biological discoveries and theories led to theological revision and uncertainty. The concept of evolution gradually led to concepts of control of evolution, control of life and death, increased control in agriculture, and control of disease.
