Abstract

The trouble with some eminent teachers of chemistry today is that they have forgotten the role of studying chemistry in a university as well as the purpose of the university itself. The purpose of the university is to bring students to experience education. Education may be defined as the creative and imaginative use of learning or knowledge. Chemistry, and the research experience associated with its study, is an eminently suitable route by which the process can be manifest. There are those who would misdirect the study of chemistry in the same way that many of our humanist colleagues misuse the humanities. We see more and more humanists trying to use the humanities to humanize students rather than trying to use the humanities as a means for developing an environment in which the educational experience can obtain. Such people promise too much and thus they themselves are the source of a great part of the student's ...

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