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THE science masters of Great Britain have -1 hitched their wagon to a star; but, as men of science, they have selected the star with deliberate judgement and have satisfied themselves that the couplings are trustworthy. The interim report on the teaching of general science just published by a sub-committee of the Science Masters' Association (after adoption by the general committee) is indeed characterized by the union of admirable ideals with sound good sense, and must be regarded as among the most weighty and most interesting of recent pronouncements on educational policy. There has long been on foot a movement to change the elementary part of the school science curriculum from its traditional, intensive and formal habit to a broader and more human shape; to substitute, in fact, a scheme of ‘general’ science for the rudiments of one or two branches of academic science hitherto constituting the usual course followed by School Certificate candidates. The terms of reference of the subcommittee were as follow:
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General Science for Secondary Schools. Nature 138, 1030–1031 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381030a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1381030a0