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What Are Some of the Contributions of Science to Liberal Education?

by Samuel Ralph Powers - 1932

This analysis of the educational values is given in an effort to call to mind some of the situations and some of the problems of everyday life and to show something of the background out of which they have come. Its aim is to illustrate how tested ideas have contributed to building up the things that are secure in our institutions and in our behavior. It illustrates some of the accomplishments in building security and some of the methods that have been the basis of attitudes that are functioning in human behavior.

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This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 31, No. 1.

Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 33 Number 9, 1932, p. 27-40
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 21214, Date Accessed: 9/28/2020 9:34:16 PM

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