PAPERS OX HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE 421 



MAKING SCIENCE TEACHING MORE EF- 

 FECTIVE IX EELATIOX TO LIFE 



H. A. Hollistek, University of Illinois 



The chief life contacts of science may be classed under 

 health, morals and industry. The question before us 

 therefore is : What constitutes effective teaching in rela- 

 tion to these three great divisions of life interests ■ 



Speaking of super power, or what is more commonly 

 called giant power, Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania says : 

 "Giant power is a term coined to suggest the realiza- 

 tion of far reaching social objectives through a vaulting 

 engineering technique. It means giving to every pro- 

 ducer of current an opportunity to add to the common 

 stock and to every user an opportunity to draw there- 

 from, but it also means the education of the public, to the 

 point where it can intelligently and fully cooperate with 

 public and private enterprise in these objectives." 



R. F. Schardt of the Commonwealth Edison, quoting 

 Pinchot, goes on to say: "This is constructive recogni- 

 tion of the biological factor in civilization, a restatement 

 that engineering objectives are affected by the human 

 stock. The technical progress of civilization cannot be 

 indefinitely continued, nor even the present status main- 

 tained, unless some attention is paid to improving the 

 personnel which man the machine." 



This brings to the fore the problem of health as really 

 underlying the whole fabric of human existence, especial- 

 ly as our social order advances to higher levels of at- 

 tainment in all those things which characterize modern 

 civilization as ever advancing. 



The first and most fundamental call, therefore, which 

 human life makes on science is the instilling into the 

 minds of youth the value of life at its best and the means 

 of preserving it and projecting it on to coming genera- 

 tions with increasing rather than diminishing virility. 

 and with adaptability to every changing social and phys- 

 cal condition. This means the training in knowledge and 

 practice of the laws of health of body and mind; of how 

 to conserve, rather than to waste, one's physical resourc- 

 es and mental inheritance; of how to care for the propa- 



