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.
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