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SPEAKING at Oxford a few days ago in connexion with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Old Ashmolean, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, president of the Royal Society, made a strong plea for increased attention to the history of science in secondary schools and universities in Great Britain. He suggested that “the history of science—the history of the gradual development of the fundamental ideas and conceptions, perhaps its effect upon civilisation—might form the subject of school teaching and take the place of the purely technical teaching of science which the schools at present give. That would turn out not only men who are going to take up science as a career, but the right sort of teaching would give that sympathy with and understanding of science which we would fain have in our public men and in our citizens generally.”
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History in Science. Nature 131, 777–779 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131777a0
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