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xvLQwxtuis jcrf ^cietxcje. 



Mental OTcrstraln in Edncation. In a 



recent address before the British Medical 

 Association, under the above title, Dr. G. E. 

 Shuttleworth called attention to some of the 

 harmful results caused by the undiscrimi- 

 nating educational methods of the public 

 schools. He says : " With some so-called 

 educationalists, I fear the idea still lingers 

 that it " (education) " consists of cramming 

 a mind with as much of as many subjects as 

 possible. ... A smattering of philology, 

 however, will serve to show that the word 

 ' education ' means not putting in, but draw- 

 ing out, and, bearing in mind the physio- 

 logical interdependence of bodily and mental 

 development, we may say that true education 

 consists in processes of training which will 

 produce in a given individual the most favor- 



able evolution possible of all the faculties 

 both of body and mind. A rational educa- 

 tional system will of course recognize the 

 fact that all children are not cast in the 

 same mold; that there are inherent, often 

 inherited, differences in each pupil's powers, 

 and that, to obtain the best results, instruc- 

 tion must be adapted to idiosyncrasies and 

 proportioned' to varying capacities. . . . From 

 the medical standpoint we shall reply in the 

 affirmative to the query of Plato: 'Is not 

 that the best education which gives to the 

 mind and to the body all the force, all the 

 beauty, and all the perfection of which they 

 are capable ? ' Overpressure in education 

 may in brief be described as a neglect of the 

 principles just set forth a neglect which 

 can not fail to lead to mental overstrain. 



