Abstract
A FRIENDLY criticism of schoolmasters and their ways, written by a professor of biology, is a book of special value. Biology is a subject not usually taught in schools, and students taking it up at college are not in the condition which the schoolmaster is fond of describing as “thoroughly well-grounded in the elementary parts of the subject,” and the scientific professor as “crammed with a multitude of imperfectly understood facts.” The professor of biology therefore, in forming an opinion upon the previous training of his pupils thinks more of the mental habits which they have formed than of the knowledge which they have acquired.
Thirty Years of Teaching.
By L. C. Miall, Professor of Biology in the Yorkshire College. Pp. viii + 250. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1897.)
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Thirty Years of Teaching. Nature 56, 315 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056315a0
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