Word: dehart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Students perform perfunctory experiments to prove points already memorized, poke away at frogs and recite by rote an endless, largely meaningless list of Latin names, learning little of the processes by which life exists on earth and which have fascinated man since the beginning of time. Says Biologist Paul DeHart Kurd of Stanford University: "The mere skeleton of science is presented, and the facts are divorced from anything that might be called the processes of science, sterilized of their beauty and left dangling without a place in the scheme of things...