DISCUSSION 
Klein: As a professor of biology, I agree very much with 
Dr. Crick that there is a tremendous rate of increase in biological 
knowledge and a lack of biologically educated people, at all 
levels of education. But there is always the risk that biology will 
not be taught objectively. We have an example in the biology 
taught in Germany during the Hitler régime. There were 
books on biology for all levels of education, but it was directed 
biology. This emphasis on biology was apparent even in the 
law: there was a long biological introduction by Professor 
Rudin to the law on eugenic sterilization passed in July 1933. 
We must be very careful in teaching biology, and especially in 
teaching eugenics, not to teach a directed biology like that of 
Muller. 
Huxley: The answer to this point is that we must let the 
biological profession itself do the job of improving the teaching 
of biology. In America, a committee of the American Institute 
of Biological Sciences, originally headed by Bentley Glass and 
now run by Grobham at the University of Colorado, has al- 
ready prepared three parallel textbooks and sets of teaching aids 
for high school biology!. ‘They appear to be most successful in 
giving the high school boy or girl a good understanding of 
biology as a whole in a remarkably short time. I understand 
that the Gulbenkian Foundation is doing something of the sort 
in this country. 
Pirie: I wouldargue that, within limits, bad biology is better 
than none. The place to start is surely with the Cabinet. I 
would be very much happier if I thought that those who govern 
us knew the rudiments of biology. 
Taking up Crick’s point about the humanist argument on 
whether one has a right to have children, I would say that in a 
society in which the community is responsible for people’s 
welfare—health, hospitals, unemployment insurance, etc.—the 
answer is “‘No’’. I should like to hear what Coon has to say to 
the proposition that people do not have an innate impulse to 
have children as opposed to the innate impulse to have fun. 
What has always appeared to me the ideal contraceptive 
technique would be a situation in which people would normally 
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