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FOR many years a number of our provincial museums have striven to make their collections of educational value, both to the ordinary citizen through their exhibits and guides, and to the schools through their exhibits and special circulating collections, as well as by talks to the teachers or pupils. The response of the education authorities long continued disappointing, but some eight or ten years ago things began tq move more rapidly. Certain pure educationists began to see that there was something of value for them in the museums, and in 1913 the Educational Science Section of the British Association appointed a strong committee to report on the question. The war, though unfortunately preventing the publication of that committee's lengthy report, and hindering museum activities in many directions, has had the result in some towns, notably Manchester, of inducing the schools to lighten their own troubles by seeking the aid of the museums and their staffs.
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Museums, Education, and the Board . Nature 104, 114–115 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104114c0
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