XVI TECHNICAL EDUCATION 409 



And now, having, as I hope, justified my as- 

 sumption of a place among handicraftsmen, and 

 put myself right with you as to my qualification, 

 from practical knowledge, to speak about technical 

 education, I will proceed to lay before you the 

 results of my experience as a teacher of a handi- 

 craft, and tell you what sort of education I should 

 think best adapted for a boy whom one wanted to 

 make a professional anatomist. 



I should say, in the first pake, let him have a 

 good English elementary education. I do not 

 mean that he shall be able to pass in such and 

 such a standard — that may or may not be an 

 equivalent expression — but that his teaching shall 

 have been such as to have given him command of 

 the common implements of learning and to have 

 created a desire for the things of the under- 

 standing. 



Further, I should like him to know the ele- 

 ments of physical science, and especially of physics 

 and chemistry, and I should take care that this 

 elementary knowledge was real. I should like my 

 aspirant to be able to read a scientific treatise in 

 Latin, French, or German, because an enormous 

 amount of anatomical knowledge is locked up in 

 those languages. And especially, I should require 

 some ability to draw — I do not mean artistically, 

 for that is a gift which may be cultivated but can- 

 not be learned, but with fair accuracy. I will not 

 say that everybody can learn even this; for the 



