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In the beginning of science instruction and to the end, the fact must be recognized that the child stands at the center of the universe, and from first to last is touched by everything in it.

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He comes to the teacher with his eyes filled with a thousand pictures, but they are ignored, and he is robbed of them one by one until at last the beauty of this world fades from his sight and it is changed to a vale of tears.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Wilbur S. Jackman

Wilbur S. Jackman

Born: 1855
Died: January 28, 1907 (aged 52)
Bio: Wilbur Samuel Jackman was an American educator and one of the originators of the nature study movement. Shortly after he was born in Mechanicstown, Ohio, his family moved to California, Pennsylvania where he spent his boyhood growing up on a farm.
Known for:
  1. Nature Study for the Common Schools (1891)
  2. Number Work in Nature Study (1893)

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