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IT is much to the credit of the head-masters that they should have moved voluntarily in the matter of science teaching. The great majority of them are known to look upon it without hostility, but have hesitated to introduce it into their schools, in ignorance of its educational value, of the time and teaching power necessary, of subjects, methods, cost. Since the Report of the Science Commission all see that it must come, and that it is better for the schools to shape the system to be adopted leisurely and in concert than to wait till it is forced upon them from without. A few schools have already accepted it in principle; a very few have worked it adequately for some years past; to these the Head-Masters' Committee have applied for information, and their published answers are before us.
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TUCKWELL, W. The Head-Masters on Science Teaching 1 . Nature 17, 317–318 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017317a0
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