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Professor Epstein discusses new approaches to the problems of established teaching methods. He describes a technique of teaching in which research papers are studied in class with a view to finding out what a scientist does and how he works.
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Epstein, H. T., A Strategy for Education (Oxford University Press, London, 1970).
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EPSTEIN, H. An Experiment in Education. Nature 235, 203–205 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/235203a0
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