Excerpt from The Teaching of Physics for Purposes of General Education
One of the liveliest themes of present educational discussion is that of the distinction between vocational and cultural work. According to the old ideas, certain subjects are preeminently cultural, while others are distinctly vocational; and in any scheme of general education, the cultural studies must predominate. The present insistent demand for industrial training has brought these ideas into the limelight of investigation, and has divided the forces of education into two parties, which may be called the culturalists and the vocationalists.
This distinction between cultural and vocational seems to be wholly beside the mark in any true system of general education. It owes its origin to the mistaken ideas of the doctrine of formal discipline. This book is an effort to show how, in the case of physics, the two points of view may be amalgamated into one.
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