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Thirty years ago the study of science was fighting for a position of academic respectability much as the various special sciences are fighting for the same position to-day. Science edged its way in through the popular fourteen weeks in physics or chemistry, which afforded a very valuable scientific interpretation of the immediate environment of the pupils. But when the colleges agreed to accept science for entrance on the same basis as mathematics and the foreign languages, they prescribed the content of the science courses and totally changed their character. The new syllabi were determined by college professors who had in mind only the needs of the pupils destined to go to college.
For these reasons, without real blame being attributable to any one, the proper aim of the study of science in the high schools was defeated. Disturbers of the educational peace then pointed to the fact that approximately only five per cent of the high school pupils go to college. They questioned the dictum that the best education for the pupil preparing for college is the best education for the pupil going immediately into active life. It was pointed out that everybody who took science was being forced to study a great deal of pure theory that could not be connected with practical life without much subsequent study.
The first movement toward a reformation of this unfortunate condition was the organization of short courses in biology for the first year of the high school.
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- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1330605012
- ISBN 13 9781330605011
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages500
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