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A PLAN for teaching the Natural Sciences in ordinary schools has been submitted to the School Board for London by Mr. J. C. Morris. The following are stated by the Journal of the Society of Arts to be the principal points of the proposed system:—Subjects—chemistry, heat, light, sound, electricity, magnetism, telegraphy, mechanics, hydrostatics, steam engine, &c.; geology, metallurgy, botany, zoology, animal physiology, health, &c. A committee should be formed to select, revise, and compile a complete set of suitable text books, which should bear their sanction, and be then published in the cheapest possible form. There should be a depôt to provide apparatus at a cheap rate, a complete set of which, sufficient to illustrate the sciences mentioned, would not cost more than 100l., and should be divided into ten cases of 10l. each, a case to be complete for one or two subjects. The teacher should be a visting one. He could attend from two to three schools per day. and give from one to two hours' instruction in each, during two days in the week. The instruction to be given in a separate apartment, if there be one; or, if not, at such a time as would not interfere with ordinary school business. A single school teacher could thus attend from six to nine schools weekly, if sufficiently near each other, and get through at least three or four subjects annually, so that in two or three years he would have completed the full course in each school.
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Science Teaching in Ordinary Schools . Nature 3, 495 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003495b0
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