Excerpt from Zoology for High Schools and Academies
At the present day, natural science is finding a place in the most elementary courses of study; and nothing is wiser or more natural than this, since it is in childhood that interest is most readily aroused and the observing faculties most easily trained. But the teacher of biology in a crowded graded school has many difficulties with which to contend. Every one will admit that he who knows a few things well is better equipped for any field of work than he who has a superficial knowledge of many things; and nowhere is this more true than in any department of natural science. The zoologist who has thoroughly studied a few typical forms has a basis on which to build, which no amount of more general but less definite knowledge can give him. Our colleges with well-appointed laboratories afford every facility for thorough investigation, in dissection, and in microscopic and other independent work; but in schools where classes are large and time limited, and where no laboratory is provided, such work is practically impossible. After several years of experience in teaching zoology in the lowest grade of a high school, the author has become convinced that a textbook in which a few typical forms are clearly yet simply described should be used for class work, and this supplemented by outside individual work on the part of the pupil.
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