Excerpt from Geological Studies; Or Elements of Geology: For High Schools, Colleges, Normal, and Other Schools
"The diffusion of that which is specially named science has at the same time spread abroad the only spirit in which any kind of knowledge can be prosecuted to a result of lasting intellectual value." - Professor Jebb.
"All the subjects which the sixteenth century decided were 'liberal' are studies in books; but natural science is to be studied not in books, but in things." - President Eliot.
"The genesis of knowledge in the individual must follow the same course as the genesis of knowledge in the race."
"Every study should have a purely experimental introduction." - Herbert Spencer.
"Were I dictator, I would drive all teachers of science out into the great field of dead work; force them to go through all the gymnastics of original research and its description, and not permit them to return to their libraries until their note books were full of their own measurements and calculations, sketch maps, and fann drawings, severely accurate, and logically classified, to be then compared with those recorded in the books." - Joseph P. Lesley.
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