Scientific instruction : its aims and methods / by George Gore.

  • Gore, George, 1826-1909.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Scientific instruction : its aims and methods / by George Gore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    extensive branch of science [chemistry], and it would be too much to expect that young men who, at the utmost, have only attended fifty lectures on chemistry, should be able to answer with much effect, in writing, to questions set down on paper, when we know by experience that daily work for eight hours in practical laboratories for three months does not go very far to confer such ability.” * Boys (and men also) who only see experiments performed, fre- quently get the false impression that science in general is an easy thing, because they see the teacher make experiments so readily; but the experiments selected for use in lectures are genei’ally of the easiest kind and such only as can be quickly performed and give conspicuous results, visible at a distance, and are not by any means a fair specimen of the every-day occupation of scientific men, or of science in general, such as is continually required, not only for theoretic purposes, but also for the determina- tion of numerous practical questions of importance in commercial, manufacturing, engineering, agricultural, military, naval, and other affairs. * Life of Faraday, vol. ii., p. 29. •Butlor 4 Tanner, Tim Selwood Printing Work*, Froiuo, and London.