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EDUCATION in the United States is well served by several periodicals. The issue for February last of School Life,the official organ of the U.S. Office of Education, is well illustrated and full of live discussion of controversial issues, while it illustrates the enterprise of educational authorities. The science department of Dover High School in Ohio has leased twenty-five acres of potential flood land which are to be used as a field laboratory for the study of ecology and the management of streams and ponds. It is suggested that the Decennial Census, which is due in April, might be discussed in schools, as it has a very wide scope and will include housing for the first time. School and Society,February 17, begins with a good article on “The Teacher Pupil Relationship in a Democracy” and ends with a striking one on “Vocabulary and Success in College”. Vocabulary and style are, in fact, of great importance for success in life. Max Miiller was not well informed when he put down the words used in a country parish as less than 300; but the rustic world, which has its own expert information to give, is still hampered by its incoherence, and education should be always enlarging the effective use of language. On the elementary Bide, it is to cost Great Britain, according to the latest yearly estimate, well over 36 million sterling. Forty years since, men of science were below the educated standard in books and journalism; now they are distinguished for good writing, which is appreciated by the general public. This is particularly needed in science, since discoveries are exaggerated and misstated by fluent 'stunt’ writers who popularize without adequate knowledge.
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Progress in Education. Nature 145, 776 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145776a0
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