A review of'a work on science'in schools says : It is not by " taking up " ;i specific subject in addition to the claws subjects, nor by adding a science masl-er to the regular staff of classical masters. Hint our education can li. l rendered scientific. It is not a smattering of physiology or chemistry that we need, but a general training in science, a cultivation of the. faculties of observing accurately, and of reasoning correctly from what is observed, lti is no paradox to say that thefc loast scientific of all schools are those which havo been called! into existence, and festered hy tlvs Science and Art ttepaiitnient, and the only cense in which they can be. truly called organised scien&S schools is that tliay are organised for the purpose of winning grants.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13397, 21 September 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)
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132Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13397, 21 September 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)
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