The Elementary Teaching of Science

Abstract

PERHAPS the most important event in the Chemical Section at Newcastle was the presentation of a second Report (the first part of which we print elsewhere) by the Committee¹ appointed “to inquire into and report upon the present methods of teaching chemistry.” It is a remarkable fact that the daily Press in general has made only the barest possible reference to the Report or to the animated discussion which followed its reading; although, as the Times points out, “there is a Committee attached to Section B, the professed purpose of which is to inquire into and report upon the teaching of chemistry; the truth is, however, that it involves the wide question of science teaching in general. The national importance of such an inquiry is evident, and it behoves all the Sections to take an interest in it.”