Abstract
Considerable criticism has recently been directed against the commonly accepted methods of teaching Biology in our secondary school and colleges. John Burroughs once re- marked that he had never dissected an animal and was glad of it, implying by this, I take it, that we do not learn Nature by dissecting her children. Recently Wheeler of Harvard, has voiced a similar criticism by saying that our teaching of Biology is suffering from academic dry rot; that laboratory dissection of a dead animal gives the student a knowledge of the details of structure of that animal without giving any knowledge of, or creating any interest in that animal as a living organism.
Publication Date
November 1928
Journal Title
Science Bulletin
Volume
1
Issue
1
First Page
4
Last Page
6
Copyright
©1928 by Iowa State Teachers College
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Abbott, Roy L.
(1928)
"Some Suggestions for Winter Study of Biology in High Schools,"
Science Bulletin: Vol. 1:
No.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/science_bulletin/vol1/iss1/6