The High School Physics (Classic Reprint)

American Association for the Advancement of Science at its meeting in 1879, appointed a committee to consider the subject of Science-T eaching in the Public Schools. The followinfr are extracts from the report of this committee :- â?? Thlough books and teachers the pupil is filled np with information with regard to Science I ts facts and principles are explained as far possible, and then left in the lnemory with his other school acquisitions. He lea ns theS ciences much as he learns Geography and History Only inn few exceptional schools is he put to any irect mcn al work upon the snbiectmatter of Science, or taught to think for himself. .. The va lr eof ei ucatiol systems co sist in what they do to incite the pn lto help himself. Mechanical school work can give instruction, but it ce develop faculty, because this depends upon sclf-exertion. Science frig ly pursued, is the most valuable school of self-instruction. From the begi `men of Science have been self-dependent an self-reliant because selftaught; and it is a question whether they have been most hindered or helped by the schools. â?? That such a state of things should exist is not to be wondered at A ny eacher knows how hard it is to dispossess the minds of students of the old inherited I deas of learning from books. They take naturally enough to memorizing a page of text, but seem to have no other ideas of education. They are born blind (to the vmd of natural objects), and unfortunately have been taught to read before learning to see. The system of education pursued for generations has been a study of words rather than a study of things. Pupils have been trained to read and remember what others have written, instead of being trained to ascertain and establish what is true.
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