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People have now-a-days got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can best be taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chemistry by lectures.
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Born:
August 8, 1779
Died:
November 24, 1864
(aged 85)
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Benjamin Silliman was an early American chemist and science educator.
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