Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether or not such a course will work out well must remain a meet point. The lack of easily accessible material to choose from stands as one objection, and many will claim that such a method will create an even more spotty knowledge and understanding than would a survey course. President Conant himself warns that he "may be peddling a rope of sand...
...teach something of the "tactics and strategy of science" is the aim of the book's proposed course: the suggested method, to do so by using "case histories." In an introductory chapter President Conant develops the concept of the role of science in the non-scientist's education and responsibilities. There is nothing new here. From such diverse sources as the General Education Report and the Smyth Report on Atomic Energy, the growing need for some sort of mass comprehension of science has been iterated and reiterated. When President Conant concludes that the layman can best understand science through...
...realms. President Conant proposes to take certain cases, such as Robert Boyle's experiments with the air pump or the completely fallacious and stubbornly maintained theory of phlogiston, and illustrate through them the principles of the tactics and strategy of science. As opposed to a broad historical survey, this method offers the advantages of simplicity and totality to the student, and that of greater selectivity to the instructor. The main part of the book consists of illustrations of case histories and the method of drawing deductions from them...
Referring again to the lives of great scientists for his factual material, Conant analyses and explains the so called "scientific method" in lay terms. Though he has written many books relating to this subject in general and Chemistry in particular, this is the first designed for a popular audience...
Although the Psychology Department has neither tutors nor laboratory hours, in the opinion of Chairman Edwin Boring their present advising method is highly satisfactory. Professor Boring stated that he considered as the real key to the problem, not the question "Will tutorial be revived?" but "Has Psychology kept any of the values of the old tutorial system without keeping the system." "The system", in his opinion, "is a bad way to spend the University's money...