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- Title
SCIENCE AND ITS ROLE IN A LIBERAL-ARTS COLLEGE IN THE ATOMIC AGE.
- Authors
Wright, Clarence W.
- Abstract
The article focuses on science and its role in a liberal-arts college in the atomic age. The contribution of this age recognized in four periods of developments. The first is the inventive that gave rise to many inventions. The second is the mechanical that the accomplishment by machine of work that the man could not do by hand. The third is the electrical which characterized by production, transformation and conduction of electrical energy and power. And the fourth is the atomic that the production and use of the energy in the nucleus of the atom. The purpose of the liberal-arts college was to expose one to literature, art, humanities, and science in order that one might acquire a general knowledge and appreciation of life.
- Subjects
HUMANISTIC education; ART &; science; SCIENCE &; the humanities; EDUCATION; LITERATURE &; science; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; BACHELOR of liberal studies; PROGRESSIVE education; MOTOR ability
- Publication
Science Education, 1959, Vol 43, Issue 2, p140
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730430212