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Science Teaching

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IN an article in NATURE, December 29, 1870, on “Science at School Boards,” the teaching capabilities of this country appear to me to be under-rated; I refer especially to the following passage:— “We would advise that some attempt be made to teach some quantum of Natural Science somehow. The present masters will probably be utterly ignorant of any branch of Science!”

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MILLER, S. Science Teaching. Nature 3, 208 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003208b0

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