Excerpt from Physiology for the Laboratory
It has seemed to me that there is needed a radical change in the teaching of physiology. The old way qi teaching physiology merely from the text-book has been outgrown in most of the best schools. Many teachers are in the next stage of development. They use the textbook largely, but have experiments to illustrate the text. That is, they use first the text-book, and secondly the experiments.
It would seem that the logical way to teach the elements of physiology, as the elements of other sciences, would be, first, to study the specimen and then to go to the text-book for additional facts after we have thoroughly laid the foundation with the specimens. The text-book should be used, but the foundation must first be laid from the study of the actual animals in the laboratory. This has long been the method of teaching botany, chemistry, and the other sciences. Why should physiology be taught so very differently? Some have thought that the subject was not one for experimental work in the high and normal schools. But that can be easily disproved by visiting some really good teaching in this subject.
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