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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION
A PRIL, 1931
Acknowledgment The writer wishes t o express appreciation for the help given to her by the following state vocational supervisors. Mrss LIZZIEM. BARBOUR, Assistant Supervisor of Industrial Education of Texas; M R . H. C. THAVER,State Supervisor Vocational Teacher Trainina of Wisconsin: MR. SCOTT J. MCGINNIS,State Supervisor Trade and Industrial Education, Oklahoma; M R . GEORGE K. WELLS, State Supervisor of Industrial Education of Indiana; M R . H. W. CARMICHAEL, Supervisor Trade and Industrial Education of Iowa; MR. C. M. MILLER, Supervisor of Trade and Industries of Kansas; and M R . K. WILSON. Supervisor of Vocational Education of Michigan The following teachers gave assistance in this survey and through them our data were obtained. M R . A. R. GRAHAM. Director Madison Vocational School, Madison. Wisconsin; MR. H. 0. EEEN, Director Vocational School, Green Bay, Wisconsin; MR. FRED G. ERNEY, Evening Chemistry Instructor, Dallas, Texas; MR. HERB HERLIG, Director Appleton Vocational School, Appletan, Wisconsin; M R . HAKOLDR. SMIM, Instructor of Chemistry. Arthur Hill Trade School, Saginaw, Michigan; MR. H. R. WII.SON,Instru~torof Industrial Science, Lansing, Michigan.
The Reseurch Committee of the Illinois Association of Chemistry Teachers presents this report of the Sumey of Chemistry i n the Vocational High Schools of the Middle West. J. C. CH~DDIX, Chairman, DORRSIMER, R OSALIE M. P ARR , MABLE SPENCER. Science Teachers Warned against Pampering Students. Are even advanced science courses in danger of becoming mere modern substitutes for the old-time Chautauqua lectures? Teachers of American colleges were challenged by this question recently by Prof. William A. Riley of the University of Minnesota, retiring vice president of the ZoBlogy section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Cleveland. "There can be no doubt that today the dominant conception has become one of an unbroken system from the kindergarten t o the graduate school, and already there are demands that its requirements and standards be adjusted t o accommodate the hordes who must have a doctor's degree in order to obtain or hold a position in our colleges." said Prof. Riley. "A recent writer has expressed clearly his own and a common opinion when he says, 'The outside citizens are the ultimate deciders of school policies, they hold the purse strinas. " - . they . own the schools. Educators are their emolo~ees.' . . The tendency t o supplant laboratory demonstration by textbook instruction was one feature of the new science teachina- methods criticized by Prof. Riley. Too often. in his opinion, instead of performing experiments, the modern college student is the subiect of experiments by the teacher. "There are a few groups of peoples which have been more or less tacitly regarded as legitimate experimenting material-condemned criminals, subject nations. and men under rigid military discipline," said Prof. Riley. "College students are now being added t o this list but the teacher who regards his students in that light is no more able to do his best for them than is the doctor whose in meeting his patients is the study of the action of some particular drug."first conScience Sw&c
