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“WTHAT difference has the war made? I believe it has opened the eyes of the nation to the perils which arise from the neglect of intellectual things, the satisfaction with book knowledge, the inattention to facts,0 the concentration on physical prowess, and on a passive kind of material prosperity— the widespread ignorance of natural facts even among our leaders, and consequent contempt for investigation and expert knowledge. What has become apparent is the ignorance of our governing classes. The ignorance of all classes. The facts that education has not led to widely diffused. knowledge, was not designed to lead there, that it failed to stimulate any healthy intellectual interest in the majority, have now glared at us too prominently to be overlooked.”
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DANIELL, G. Science at Educational Conferences . Nature 96, 547–549 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/096547b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/096547b0