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WE have long insisted in NATURE on the extreme importance of science teaching in the higher grade schools in this country, and we are glad to find that at length its importance has begun to be recognised by the head masters themselves; so that, on the whole, the progress now being made in this direction is such that we may confidently expect that at no very distant future science instruction will be provided for in all our superior schools. Foremost, if not positively the first among the schools in which the sciences are thus taught stands Clifton College, under the able direction of the Rev. J. Percival, in which scientific study is introduced to the utmost, and keenly pursued by the boys, with the encouragement of all their masters the latter a most important consideration, and which, we are sorry to say. we cannot assert in reference to other schools of equal pretensions. There are several points of interest about the method of teaching at Clifton, and we are glad to have the opportunity of laying before our readers a sketch of the way in which the work there is carried on, together with a sketch of the museum, which, may well become the model of all school museums. Science is much indebted to Mr. Percival for the magnificent example he has set in science education.
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Clifton College School of Natural Science . Nature 4, 329–330 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004329a0
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