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PROF. BOYCOTT'S letter on this subject in NATURE of January 23 deserves the serious attention of those who are striving to secure, as an element in our higher education, some sound knowledge of elementary science and of true scientific method of thought. Quite apart from the important and useful information which would be incidentally acquired from well-directed biological teaching, the student would thus receive an excellent schooling in how to think clearly. It is constantly forgotten that an immense proportion of the subject-matters which concern human beings in their everyday life are on the “biological” side of the border-line which conventionally divides them from the domain of “physics.”
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DONKIN, H. The Neglect of Biological Subjects in Education . Nature 102, 444 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/102444b0
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