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On Teaching Secondary School Science to the Humanistically Oriented
It was a chemist, Linus Pauling, who proposed to UNESCO a "oroaram for the education of the citizen in science. which . . would begin at the kindergartt.n Ir\.el." I1 wilsant~tht.rchrmist, James H.Conant, amhu insided that "to iind and cducute the gifted youth is essential for the welfare of the country." A major concern! therefore, for all teachers is to identify and encourage all youth, including the humanistically oriented. Such a one was I, a boy from the so-called Rail and Harbor City, a prelegal student majoring in the classics in a small liberal arts college. A graduate requirement was a year of science. I became a nhvsicist. At the time of sputnik, the following story was told as to how to select ootential science students. "Johnnv." vou sav. "here is a normal cow with four legs and one tail. s;pp&e I call the tail a leg. How manv legs will the cow have then?" If he
Fahrenheit. We noted the corresponding readings of so-called fixed ooints and formed a table of their values. We then noted t h t Celsiuz temperature a r i water, and
