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SIR FREDERICK GOWLAND HOPKINS delivered the inaugural sessional address at the opening of the ninety-fourth Session of the College of the Pharmaceutical Society on Wednesday, October 2. His address included a wide survey of the needs of pharmacy to-day and of the educational means for satisfying them, and led him to examine a problem as old as education itself, the problem of how far vocational training is compatible with true education in which a subject is studied for its own sake as an intellectual exercise. It has often been said that science can only be taught properly when it is taught as pure science without reference to its applications. This claim is justified to the extent that vocational needs must not make the teaching of science so one-sided that the student risks missing the intellectual stimulus which the great generalisations of science provide.
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Biochemistry in Relation to Therapeutics. Nature 136, 614–615 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136614a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136614a0