Excerpt from Journal of Education, Vol. 27: January, 1874 Instruction in these subjects should, in my opinion, be rendered in erative. I speak from practical experience when I say t at the subj ects above mentioned may be rendered in tensely interesting to boys, and that the love for such studies which a competent teacher could evoke, would be a powerful aid to intellectual discipline. Much may be accomplished by extremely simple means how much is only known to those who are accustomed to devise new methods of experimental demonstra tion. I do not think that the cost of apparatus could be regarded as an objection of the least weight to the introduction of science into our public schools. In addition to elementary physics and chemistry, I should recommend the introduction of botany, and to these three sciences I would, for the present, con fine attention. With regard to the time to be devoted to science, six or seven hours a week would be of immense importance; even less than this would at the end of three or four years, sum itself up to something extremely valuable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.