“…First, I wish to point out that the proposals for small scale experimentation in the chemical laboratory for teaching are over 125 years old. In 1835 D. B. Reid, in giving evidence before a committee on education in Ireland, recommended the use of small scale experimentation for science teaching in schools (17). His students were provided with a blowpipe, a test tube, slips of paper, and with broad and narrow strips of glass such as the glazier discards.…”