HER NATURE STUDIES.
To illustrate tlio extent to isiich pure "cram" is carried, and -the difference existing between it and wide and .sound knowledge, Mr! G. M. Thomson, M.P., speaking in Dunedin, said that ho was once appointed examiner in botany to a certain school, which hod a-great reputation for securing high passos in .university sdholarships v and matriculation examinations 1 He was simply horrified one Christmas holiday to loam that _ tho young lady teacher who vras scouring theee 80 and 90 per .cent, passos, having, when out walking on an excursion, been shown a certain plant, remarked, "Oh! .what a beautiful specimen., I have never seen that .before. What' is the name of it?" . . The peculiar thing was that this plant was a particular fcvpo upoii tho. minute structure of which this young lady had Veen oxhaustivoly. lecturing to her class and scouring good results. "Sho actually crammed them • like turkeys from text-books;" said Mr. Thomson, "aad did not know the plant sho was talking about.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 514, 22 May 1909, Page 11
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167HER NATURE STUDIES. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 514, 22 May 1909, Page 11
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