Section J. 
MENTAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION. 
lresident of the Section: W. L. Cleland, M.D. 
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CHILD STUDY.—A NEW DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE. 
By J. H. Berueras, B.A. 
| Abstract. ] 
A. stupy of the child in the concrete is necessary to properly 
train the child mind. The teacher must understand the diffi- 
culties as they appear to the child. 
To send a child from school with a sound mind in a sound 
body, with a mind strong and vigorous to grasp the possibili- 
ties of his environment, and prompt to change these possibili- 
ties into actualities, and with a body capable of sustaining con- 
tained effort, is the true ideal of the teacher. 
One lesson to be iearnt from this study is that all genuine 
stupidity and dulness on the part of children may be traced to 
an abnormal condition of the body. 
2—SOME ASPECTS OF THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION 
QUESTION IN VICTORIA. 
3y F. A. Campspeti, M.C.E. 
[ Abstract. | 
TECHNICAL training must be defined to be specialised training 
as distinct from general training, limited only by its connec- 
tion with the present or future occupation of the student. 
The history of the growth of the movement from 1868 to the 
present time was traced, at the conclusion of which the writer 
states that “the immediate and pressing want so far as techni- 
cal training is concerned is for further extension of the work in 
certain directions, particularly in the practical application of 
science and art to industry, and further modifications of the 
relations existing between the Government and the Technical 
Schools, so as to remove retarding influences, and yet permit. 
