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ing that “activities must always be prior?” A little practical 
exercise in the methods of teaching is doubtless good, but it 
should be for the sake of the benefit to him personally, and not 
because his energies are being turned to a useful account by 
any Government department or the principal of any educational 
establishment. He should be looked upon as a student, and 
treated as such until he has passed an entrance examination to 
the scholastic profession, and reached mature years. The 
necessity for studying under the influences of general 
weariness, bodily and mental, cannot fail to produce an injurious 
effect on his future mental condition. 
The conclusions that are arrived at, if education is to be 
conducted on the lines of a brain growth, and with a due regard 
to its developing anatomy, are :— 
1. The necessity for an abundance of nutriment out of which 
to elaborate nerve force. 
2. The necessity that there should be a cultivation suited to 
each period of growth, and, as in other cases of growth, the 
cultivator must wait on Nature, and be careful not to thwart her 
efforts. 
3. And, lastly, the necessity for a study of the individual 
potentialities of each pupil, so as not to expect the unattainable 
in one case, nor repress the possibilities in another. Each one 
can only proceed along the road of acquirement of knowledge 
as far as his inherent cerebral powers, when properly educated, 
will carry him. 
The object of the foregoing remarks has been to emphasise 
the principle of growth in the production of mind, and the 
necessity for educational efforts to harmonise with this as re- 
gards time and methods of procedure. 
