Examinations in Experimental Science

Abstract

You occasionally do us, who are humble teachers of Elementary Science in schools, the very great kindness of giving us, through your columns, the chance of reaching the ears of those eminent men who are your frequent contributors, and who examine our pupils. Will you, in the interest of that real science teaching, so often advocated in your columns, allow me such a chance now? I will be as brief as possible. In common with a few individuals and many public bodies, I have spent a very large amount of time, money and labour in introducing the teaching of practical physics into my school, and trying to see that it shall be of the best kind possible, and I am prepared to do more. But really there must be some agreement between us and the said eminent men as to what practical science is when the examination paper is composed.