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Mr. Tom Posted 14 years ago
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The professional schoolmaster was a match...
Hi
Could you please tell me what exactly the underlined phrase means?
The pioneers of the teaching of science imagined that its
introduction into education would remove the conventionality,
artificiality, and backward-lookingness which were characteristic
of classical studies, but they were gravely disappointed. So, too, in
their time had the humanists thought that the study of the classical
authors in the original would banish at once the dull pedantry and
superstition of mediaeval scholasticism. The professional
schoolmaster was a match for both of them, and has almost
managed to make the understanding of chemical reactions as dull
and as dogmatic an affair as the reading of Virgil's Aeneid.
Thanks,
Tom
Could you please tell me what exactly the underlined phrase means?
The pioneers of the teaching of science imagined that its
introduction into education would remove the conventionality,
artificiality, and backward-lookingness which were characteristic
of classical studies, but they were gravely disappointed. So, too, in
their time had the humanists thought that the study of the classical
authors in the original would banish at once the dull pedantry and
superstition of mediaeval scholasticism. The professional
schoolmaster was a match for both of them, and has almost
managed to make the understanding of chemical reactions as dull
and as dogmatic an affair as the reading of Virgil's Aeneid.
Thanks,
Tom
Top answer
The professional schoolmaster could face both the pioneers and the humanist. When someone is match for someone that means that means that they are equals.
- The professional schoolmaster could face both the pioneers and the humanist.
- When someone is match for someone that means that means that they are equals.
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The professional schoolmaster could face both the pioneers and the humanist. When someone is match for someone that means that means that they are equals.
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Thanks, Visnja!
In fact, I guessed that much -- but what I wanted to confirm is whether the author is implying that the school master disappointed both the pioneers and humanists.
Tom
In fact, I guessed that much -- but what I wanted to confirm is whether the author is implying that the school master disappointed both the pioneers and humanists.
Tom
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Well, from what i can read here... Yeah, he disappointed them because he didn't succeeded in what he was trying to explain.
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The pioneers of the teaching of science and the humanists attacked the professional schoolmaster, in a manner of speaking. They tried to change his methods The schoolmaster defeated them by refusing to change.
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Thanks again!
The chief claim for the use of science in education is that it teaches a child something about the actual universe in which he is living, in making him acquainted with the results of scientific discovery, and at the same time teaches him how to think logically and inductively by studying scientific method. A certain limited success
The chief claim for the use of science in education is that it teaches a child something about the actual universe in which he is living, in making him acquainted with the results of scientific discovery, and at the same time teaches him how to think logically and inductively by studying scientific method. A certain limited success
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Mr. TomDoes the yellow line mean that the study of science could not get the students to think logically and inductively, though it did familiarize them with the universe and scientific discoveries?Yes.
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Those privileged members of the community who have been through a secondary or public school education may be expected to know something about the elementary physics and chemistry of a hundred years ago, but they probably know hardly more than any bright boy can pick up from an interest in wireless or scientific hobbies out of school hours. As to the learning of scientific method,
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The writer used an informal expression, "the whole thing", and showed us all why formal writing is better when you want to be understood. Presumably, the "thing" is whatever the entire work is about.
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I appreciate the effort enoon!
Could you please explain the yellow part to me? From where do "spiritualism" and "astrology" drop out? And shouldn't the green has be have?
Actually, for the convenience of teachers and the requirements of the examination system, it is necessary that the pupils not only do not learn scientif
Could you please explain the yellow part to me? From where do "spiritualism" and "astrology" drop out? And shouldn't the green has be have?
Actually, for the convenience of teachers and the requirements of the examination system, it is necessary that the pupils not only do not learn scientif
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You should start a new thread for each question. That way everybody will see it, and many of the people in here are better at this than I am.
I guess you mean to ask how spiritualism and astrology come into it. They are classic cases of idea systems that are in direct opposition to the scientific method, relying as they do on no data whatsoever and involving no generalizations that can pr
I guess you mean to ask how spiritualism and astrology come into it. They are classic cases of idea systems that are in direct opposition to the scientific method, relying as they do on no data whatsoever and involving no generalizations that can pr
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