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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2022
Since I have had the privilege of reading the remarks of my fellow-symposiasts before writing out my own, I should like to begin by making the briefest of comments on each of their contributions. Professor Petrie raises the Kantian-like question of how science education is possible – or, more precisely, how, if all observation is theory-laden, science education is possible. His intriguing answer is that “Science education is possible with the aid of the humanistic tool of metaphor.” I find it difficult to asses this formulation without further examples of its concrete application to actual pedagogical problems in the natural sciences.