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I AGREE with Mr. Woods in his condemnation or a system in which every exercise is treated as if grammar and composition were as important as the subject-matter; but surely he is going too far when he says that in writing a description of what he has done or seen, a boy need not fear that his grammar or spelling or composition will be criticised at all. I ask the science master, in teaching science, to teach also mathematics and English and sketching incidentally, and to take some pleasure in doing it. If he insists that these subjects are the absolute preserves of the mathematical, the English, and the drawing masters, he must not be astonished when a classical master openly expresses pride in an ignorance of “stinks”.
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PERRY, J. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 79, 310 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079310c0
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