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IN several recent issues of NATURE it is suggested that the science teaching in schools is lifeless and dominated by the curse of useless external examinations. I learn that as a result there is little scientific interest or knowledge among the masses, and finally I am cast down by a fearsome picture of the horrors of the machine which science has created.
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SHEARCROFT, W. Science Teaching in Schools. Nature 130, 510 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130510a0
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