Excerpt from Light: A Course of Experimental Optics, Chiefly With the Lantern Very decently, at the Annual Meeting (1882) of the Teachers' Training and Education Society, Prof. Huxley reiterated, in his capacity of an Examiner in the Science and Art Department, a complaint well known at South Kensington as to the great difference between two kinds of What persons called knowledge. He remarked for the hundredth time, how That which they had constantly to contend against in the teaching of science in this country was, that ...
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Excerpt from Light: A Course of Experimental Optics, Chiefly With the Lantern Very decently, at the Annual Meeting (1882) of the Teachers' Training and Education Society, Prof. Huxley reiterated, in his capacity of an Examiner in the Science and Art Department, a complaint well known at South Kensington as to the great difference between two kinds of What persons called knowledge. He remarked for the hundredth time, how That which they had constantly to contend against in the teaching of science in this country was, that many teachers had no conception of that distinc tion for they thought it quite sufficient to be able to repeat a number of scientific propositions and to get their pupils to repeat them as accurately as they themselves did The teacher should be instructed that his business in teaching was to convey clear and vivid impressions of the body of facts upon which the conclusions drawn from those facts were based To do this in some degree for one branch of Physics is the sole object of this unpretending little work; which hopes to be rather a handbook, companion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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