The Story of the Earth (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Washburne, Carleton W.

9781330896136: The Story of the Earth (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1330896130 ISBN 13: 9781330896136

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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The science of our schools is, in a word, quantitative. That is, it concerns itself with exact measurements, accurate data, rigorous experiments, and demonstrations of laws which have to do with quantitative relationships. Hours are spent, for instance, in some of our high school laboratories, in the exact deter mination with a vernier caliper of the coefficient of expansion of aluminum. Such experiments are liable to be tedious, require much time, and thereby greatly limit the scope of the sciences taught. They are, moreover, entirely out of the reach of our elementary schools.

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Excerpt from The Story of the Earth

General science is a real need in our elementary schools. Our pupils can no longer be generally intelligent without at least a qualitative idea of the fundamental sciences. Our motion pictures, our magazines, our newspapers (including their comic sections), and our books, all make it evident that science has come forth from the cloisters of the higher institutions of learning to sit at the hearth of commonly intelligent humanity.

Not to know now-a-days that coal is of vegetable origin, for instance, is to plead as guilty of ignorance as not to know that C�sar was a Roman, or that Pekin is in China. None of these three facts is essential to life. But all are essential to that general intelligence without which there is little culture, little ability to appreciate literature or the fellowship of intelligent people.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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