"Science and Education.". T. H. Huxley

T. H. Huxley: Man's place in nature

Professor Leone's throw light on the actual scientific problems treated in the passage considered, and as such they are of great help for a reader not closely acquainted with the modern developments of embryology. Dr. Castellani has provided a lengthy introduction which, though occasionally verbose, is of great interest for the student of eighteenth-century embryology. Dr. Castellani, who appro...

Thomas H. Huxley and religion and immortality; a letter from T. Lauder Brunton to Fielding H. Garrison.

TiE Victorian era secured for man the revolutionary concepts of geological time and natural selection and may well have been the last epoch in which the world of science was seriously contested by the principles of theology, if not the ethics of religion. Not since the time of Galileo was there a greater need for resolution and compromise between these opposing forces. Thomas Henry Huxley clear...

Science, Sexuality, and the Novels of Huxley and Houellebecq

In her article "Science, Sexuality, and the Novels of Huxley and Houellebecq," Angela C. Holzer begins with an introduction to recent discourse about contemporary culture by Francis Fukuyama, notably in his book Our Posthuman Future (2001). Next, Holzer introduces twentiethcentury literary representations of genetic engineering. Focusing on Huxley's Brave New World (1932) and on Houellebecq's L...

Cognitive Science and Science Education

" The quality of science education, like mathematics education, is a pervasive concern in educational improvement efforts. The cognitive orientation to the teaching of subject matter provides the context for Carey" s discussion of science education. This orientation begins with the idea that to understand something, one must integrate it with already existing knowledge schemata. The paradox of ...

Math and science education.