Reply #29: There wasn't a National Curriculum in the 1960s... [View All]

[LeftishBrit]

and science teaching was limited in many schools until secondary age, not out of any ideological principle, but often through lack of resources. We did do Nature Study in my primary school in the late 60s/early 70), but most of that IIRC involved drawing pictures of animals and plants, copied from books rather than the natural world. Occasionally when it didn't rain, we went on Nature walks to look at flowers and trees. That was the time when 'Nuffield Science' (getting children to do their own experiments and learn from these) was becoming popular, but it passed me by until secondary school. I did know about evolution from a fairly early age, but I think this came from my parents and my being interested in dinosaurs, rather than school.