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As learning to draw is the best way of learning to use one’s 
eyes, and drawing lessons give teachers good opportunities of 
developing good taste and powers of observation, and as pictures 
will be of comparatively little use unless attention is often 
directed to them, another part of the scheme of the Committee 
is to offer to the managers of schools the services of a Super- 
visor of Drawing, one of whose functions would be to give kinds 
of information about the collections which all teachers cannot 
be expected to possess. This part of the scheme, on account of 
its costliness, can only be used in a few groups of schools. 
Of course the placing of collections of works of art in schools 
will produce comparatively small results unless the teachers can 
call attention to more in a picture than the tale it tells, unless 
they can call attention to its artistic merit, to its beauty of line 
or colour; and examples of pottery and textile fabrics especially 
will be almost valueless in schools unless teachers gain some 
feeling for their beauty of form and colour. 
It is therefore most desirable that all training colleges shall 
have collections and teachers to cultivate the sense of beauty of 
form and colour in students. But in any case the use of pictures 
in their schools, and frequent visits to Art Galleries would 
develop the sense in many teachers, and a few years hence a 
generation of pupil-teachers, trained in schools supplied with 
works of art, would he able to greatly increase the usefulness of 
the school-collections. 
For all modern communities the decision as to whether art 
shall be used in education is of much importance. It is in facta 
decision as to whether the mass ot the people shall be barbarian 
or civilised. The decision is of exceptionally great importance 
for the large towns of Great Britain. For them the decision 
means, shall the mass of the people be helped to escape from a 
very low form of barbarism or not ? 
It is the knowledge, the education, given by heroic ballads, 
touching songs and tales, fine music, lovely form and colour, 
beautiful scenery, acquaintance with good people, which creates 
and maintains the sympathies, the aspirations, the hopes and 
beliefs, which make men truthful, honest, kind, good servants, 
good masters, good neighbours, good citizens. 
