Scientific Education 



curious complaint is made : " Too few parents 

 of this generation can satisfy their children's 

 curiosity about the wonders of the heavens, 

 the movement of the planets, the growth of 

 plants, the history of rocks, the dawn of 

 animal life, the causes of the tide and tem- 

 pest." It is indeed vulgar ignorance in a parent 

 if he cannot explain the causes of the tides 

 and tempests or the movements of the planets 

 to his enquiring children ; no one advocates a 

 stupid ignorance of the simple facts of the 

 universe about us, and a parent must be 

 abnormally stupid and ignorant if he cannot 

 tell his children how a common suction pump 

 or a barometer or similar simple mechanical 

 appliances work, and such obvious items of 

 information can be acquired in a few hours 

 by anyone not mentally deficient. 



But a scientific education is quite another 

 matter. 



The binomial theorem, trigonometry, 



