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are aiming at Germanising English education ; any one with even a superficial 

 knowledge of the Gymnasiums and Real-gymnasiums knows that this is a lie. These 

 classical experts do not even know what Classics are being taught in schools 

 similar to their own abroad, and so naturally they know still less of how much or 

 how little Science is taught. As a matter of fact, the curse of German education 

 and German bureaucracy is not the predominance of Science, but of Law. In 

 German administration, by the avowal of the Germans themselves, it is the 

 Juristcn who are top dog. Excellent, again, is the author's diagnosis of the 

 problem of the preparatory school, run for profit and deriving from its connection 

 with the schools above most of the disadvantages and few of the advantages that 

 such a collaboration should bring. It is noteworthy that the average English 

 mother (for it is the mother in general who chooses the school) is guided in her 

 selection by social considerations — a striking contrast, by the way, to the French 

 mother, whose chief consideration is to find a school where her boy is really 

 taught. Equally valuable are Mr. Bryant's views on the reform of the public 

 schools' curriculum, though he rather runs the "set" system to death. For 

 reasons impossible to give here, we are firmly convinced that the real solution is a 

 working compromise between the form and the set. Lack of space alone prevents 

 more than an allusion to his masterly analysis of what the ignorance of our rulers 

 of the potentialities of science has cost the nation. The average Englishman who 

 reads it should be startled for ever out of his beliefs in the sufficiency of classical 

 studies for everybody. 



Cloudesley Brereton. 



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