Elementary Inorganic Chemistry (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Elementary Inorganic Chemistry

This book has been written to meet the modern and practical methods of science teaching which are now being universally recognized and adopted in schools and colleges.

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Excerpt from Elementary Inorganic Chemistry

This book has been written to meet the modern and practical methods of science teaching which are now being universally recognized and adopted in schools and colleges.

Formerly students were taught chemistry in the lecture-room, the knowledge so gained being supplemented by a minimum amount of practical work, and that almost exclusively analytical The tendency of the present day is to make the student, from the very beginning, an investigator; to train and develop his faculties for observation; to make him find out facts and discover truths for himself; in other words, to make him think instead of merely committing to memory what others have thought. I have therefore endeavoured, as far as it is possible to do so in a text-book, to fall into line with these views. In actual practice the purely inductive method of instruction breaks down. There is so much that the student is required to learn, that life itself is not long enough, and certainly the limited time at the disposal of the student is all too short, to admit of his going through the necessarily slow process of gaining this knowledge by his own investigations.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.