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...popular scientific education is "made difficult by the enormous mushrooming of knowledge in recent years (a problem for the scientist as well as the citizen). It is increasingly hard for a specialist to keep informed of advances in his field; in medicine, for example, the total body of known information in any given field is presently doubling every twenty years. But hard as the task may be, information must be spread and assimilated, by scientist and non-scientist alike...
Many science professors have felt that the historical approach is not in fact the best method of teaching science in general education, and have been reluctant to work in courses based on the 1945 plan, Finley added. They object to courses in which such material is taught by a non-scientist...
Student science concentrators will not benefit much from the Office's expansion plans. "Our efforts are concerned with the non-scientist," McVity said. It is not difficult to find work as a laboratory assistant, he pointed...
Because it is unlikely that Bruner's suggestions will be put in to practice, Wald's course will prove extremely important in determining whether the non-scientist can understand undiluted science. As an experiment, it is invaluable...
...college enrollments, long presidential tenures, professor-administrators, and the "publish or perish" theory. On the credit side, he thinks that the high schools are better than they were thirty years ago. He debunks the professors who deplore the lack of pre-college preparation, and correctly declares that all the non-scientist college entrant needs is the ability to read and write competent English...