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WHILE carrying out the important work of spreading scientific instruction in this country, our educationists should make themselves quite sure that the teaching already inaugurated is what it claims to be. Care must be exercised in order that a training in habits of exactness and observation is imparted, as well as an appreciation of the principles of science quite apart from a mere knowledge of facts. By intelligent practical work upon the part of the individual scholar this alone can be attained, and under present circumstances such exercise is difficult to successfully organise in schools.
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WEBB, W. Conference of Science Masters in Public Schools . Nature 63, 313–314 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063313b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/063313b0