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TWO striking addresses dealing, inter alia, with J- the teaching of science in secondary schools have recently appearedthe—the Pedler lecture of the British Science Guild, by Prof. Irvine Masson,1 and the presidential address to the Science Masters' Association, by the headmaster of Harrow.2 They go back once more to the views of Huxley, to those of the representative committees of the British Association of 1917 and 1928, under the chairmanship of Sir Richard Gregory,3 and to those of the Prime Minister's Committee of 1916–18 presided over by Sir J. J. Thomson,4 when they suggest that for the vast majority of boys (and girls) what is needed is an all-round training in science, broad and simple, and including not only physics and chemistry, but also biology, geology, and astronomy.
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H., P. Problems of Science Teaching. Nature 129, 485–487 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129485a0
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