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PROF. MELDOLA has raised an important question on Mr. Dunstan's letter. Speaking of two rural secondary schools, he says that chemistry (with physics) “has been taught with the greatest success” and is “of distinct value in after life.” It would be useful to have information about the careers of the individual boys on which he bases his opinion, and the character of the science teaching in the two schools referred to. My experience with young farmers in Essex has led me to think that the chemistry taught in many rural schools has had too little bearing upon the problems of rural life to be of much practical use, and school life is too short to admit of a science being taught as a means of mental discipline unless at the same time the pupils are building up knowledge that is essential to future progress.
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DYMOND, T. Chemistry in Rural Secondary Schools. Nature 73, 583 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073583a0
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