Taunton College School

Abstract

THE educational scheme which occupied much of the late Lord Taunton's attention during the last years of his life, but of which he only saw the beginning, has now come into practical working. Under ordinary circumstances the development of an ancient Grammar School into a modern Public School would merely pass as one of the now frequent symptoms of advance in English higher education. Thus the removal of Bishop Fox's foundation (A.D. 1522) to a fine range of buildings outside Taunton, would hardly demand notice here. Our readers, however, whose attention was taken by Mr. Tuckwell's paper on Science Teaching in Schools (NATURE, No. 1), will see that the application of his system on a much enlarged scale is likely to affect considerably the position of science in the West of England. While calling public attention to the admirable educational arrangements of this particular school, we wish to remark on science teaching in schools in general, with regard to two points which we observe to be often misconceived by the very teachers and parents whom they especially concern.