Some suggestions for modifying the content of high-school chemistry to better serve the purposes of a liberal education
Osborne R.W.
1925
Journal of Chemical Education
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10.1021/ed002p737
To summarize what I have tried to say: First, make the application side of chemistry, its connections to industry, to manufacture, to health, and to everyday experience at home and in school, the starting point in as much of our study as possible. Towards this same end utilize the material in the newer books written to popularize chemistry, stimulating in style and yet based on sound science. Second: Reduce the number of isolated topics which the pupil must learn by developing a number of new units or topics which will organize naturally and psychologically some of the information now scattered under various elements in isolated paragraphs.
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