ttW E NEED to give more national attention to the quality and content of courses and curricula in science, both in high schools and colleges. We need extensive, organized, national efforts to bring together in each subject field the leading scientists and scholars with groups of high-school and college teachers, for reexamining and modernizing the content of courses in the sciences. We need to bring about the preparation of better and more modern textbooks and to find ways of making available better but less expensive laboratory equipment. Taking the country as a whole, there seems to have been a serious decline in the quality of laboratory teaching in recent years. In too many places it has become routine, overmechanized, and sterile.
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Arnold B. Grobman (1959) studied this question.