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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- MEMOIR
- Hybridisation and Cross-breeding as a Method of Scientific Investigation
- Problems of Heredity as a subject for Horticultural Investigation
- An Address on Mendelian Heredity and its application to Man. Delivered before the Neurological Society, London, I. ii. 1906
- Gamete and Zygote. A Lay Discourse. The Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, 1917
- Heredity and Variation in Modern Lights
- Presidential Address to the Zoological Section, British Association: Cambridge Meeting, 1904
- Presidential Address to the Agricultural Subsection, British Association: Portsmouth Meeting, 1911
- Presidential Address to the British Association, Australia: (a) Melbourne Meeting, 1914. (b) Sydney Meeting, 1914
- The Methods and Scope of Genetics. Inaugural Lecture delivered 23 October 1908. Cambridge
- Biological Fact and the Structure of Society. The Herbert Spencer Lecture, 28 February 1912. Oxford
- Science and Nationality. Presidential Address delivered at the Inaugural Meeting of the Yorkshire Science Association
- Common-sense in Racial Problems. The Galton Lecture
- Evolutionary Faith and Modern Doubts. Address to American Association for the Advancement of Science. Toronto, 1922
- Progress in Biology. An Address delivered March 12, 1924, on the occasion of the Centenary of Birkbeck College, London
- EDUCATIONAL ESSAYS
- Address to the Salt Schools, Saltaire, Shipley. 7 December 1915
- Evolution and Education
- The Place of Science in Education
- Classical and Modern Education
- Classical Education and Science Men. (Précis of evidence offered to the Prime Minister's Committee on Classics. June 1920)
- REVIEWS
- APPENDIX
- INDEX OF PERSONS
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
- PLATES I-III (Figs. 1-6) to Mendelian Heredity and its application to Man
Address to the Salt Schools, Saltaire, Shipley. 7 December 1915
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- MEMOIR
- Hybridisation and Cross-breeding as a Method of Scientific Investigation
- Problems of Heredity as a subject for Horticultural Investigation
- An Address on Mendelian Heredity and its application to Man. Delivered before the Neurological Society, London, I. ii. 1906
- Gamete and Zygote. A Lay Discourse. The Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, 1917
- Heredity and Variation in Modern Lights
- Presidential Address to the Zoological Section, British Association: Cambridge Meeting, 1904
- Presidential Address to the Agricultural Subsection, British Association: Portsmouth Meeting, 1911
- Presidential Address to the British Association, Australia: (a) Melbourne Meeting, 1914. (b) Sydney Meeting, 1914
- The Methods and Scope of Genetics. Inaugural Lecture delivered 23 October 1908. Cambridge
- Biological Fact and the Structure of Society. The Herbert Spencer Lecture, 28 February 1912. Oxford
- Science and Nationality. Presidential Address delivered at the Inaugural Meeting of the Yorkshire Science Association
- Common-sense in Racial Problems. The Galton Lecture
- Evolutionary Faith and Modern Doubts. Address to American Association for the Advancement of Science. Toronto, 1922
- Progress in Biology. An Address delivered March 12, 1924, on the occasion of the Centenary of Birkbeck College, London
- EDUCATIONAL ESSAYS
- Address to the Salt Schools, Saltaire, Shipley. 7 December 1915
- Evolution and Education
- The Place of Science in Education
- Classical and Modern Education
- Classical Education and Science Men. (Précis of evidence offered to the Prime Minister's Committee on Classics. June 1920)
- REVIEWS
- APPENDIX
- INDEX OF PERSONS
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
- PLATES I-III (Figs. 1-6) to Mendelian Heredity and its application to Man
Summary
You are a body interested in education, and in asking me, a biologist, to deliver this Presidential Address, I suppose it is your wish that I should speak of the problems of education as they look in the light of biological knowledge.
Like so many other things education in the active has aspects different from those it has in the passive. My own direct acquaintance with the subject is mostly of the passive kind. I underwent the treatment in its most drastic form. I have given a little of it, though not much: but having lived most of my life in Cambridge I have been in constant association with teachers and the taught. I have been continually in what is called an educational atmosphere—so I have watched an enormous number of cases. To speak still in the language of metaphor the majority of those cases have not recovered. I don't mean that they have actually perished or sunk into permanent mental disablement—though even that is true of a considerable number—but from the treatment provided for them at vast expense they have got very little, and I am sure they would have done about as well had they never undergone the process.
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- William Bateson, NaturalistHis Essays and Addresses Together with a Short Account of His Life, pp. 409 - 419Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1928