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to be used in every town and village school. No one doubts 
that their representations of things have far more power than 
language-representations to make things known to those who 
have never seen the things. Here is one small example of their 
power. A member of the Birmingham School Board told me that 
two little girls were seen standing before a foxglove in an open 
space in the town, and one was heard to say to her companion, 
‘¢That’s the flower we’ve got a picture of in our school.” No 
one, probably, ever heard a child say, ‘‘ That’s the flower we 
had a description of in school." 
Pictures have the same kind of power in relation to people. 
Children can be more easily made to realise the fact that a man 
named in history really did live, and was a creature of their own 
human race if they see a good portrait of him, and they are 
much more deeply impressed by the goodness and heroism of 
the persons of whom they see pictures than by the noble 
qualities of the ghostly personages they only hear of. 
I can most conyeniently explain what I believe to be the best 
system of using art in education, so far at least as elementary 
schools are concerned, by describing the system which the 
Committee of the Manchester Art Museum are now developing, 
and which they hope to be soon able to extend to every 
elementary school in Manchester willing to receive their help. 
They will offer to every elementary school which promises to 
comply with certain conditions, loan collections, which will be 
changed every six months or perhaps only once a year. The 
collections will include some coloured pictures of beautiful 
scenery, of kinds which are to be seen close to Manchester, 
some of beautiful or otherwise remarkable scenery in other parts 
of our own country, and in other lands—some of them showing 
results of the operation of great natural forces—pictures of 
mountains, polar lands and seas, cafions, waterfalls, volcanoes, 
deserts ; some pictures of common trees with representation of 
their branches and of their leaves, some pictures of common 
wild and garden flowers, birds and other animals, butterflies 
and moths; some pictures of great historical events, portraits 
of historical personages, pictures of interesting buildings in 
different parts of the world, pictures of various kinds of human 
life; and, for the purpose of training taste, examples of pottery 
of good form and colour, and of textile fabrics of fine colour and 
design. 
Many of the pictures will be provided with printed descriptions 
of their subjects and with statements that they are etchings, 
engravings, chromo-lithographs, or whatever they may be, and 
that the kind of apparatus used in making them, and descriptions 
of the ways in which they are made, can be seen at the Art 
Museum, 
