376 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION J. 
4—THE TRAINING OF MENTALLY-DEFICIENT CHIL- 
DREN.—EFFORTS TO AVERT A SOCIAL DANGER. 
By Miss M. Hopae. 
5.—THE TRAINING OF FACULTY. 
By Wm. .T. Lewis. 
[ Abstract. | 
1. THE various definitions of education given by Bain, Spencer, 
and other eminent writers on the subject may be summed up 
in the expression, “ Education is the training of faculty,” and 
this is true of all the faculties, mental, moral, and mechanical. 
The chief mental powers which should be trained during school 
life are memory, imagination, observation, concentration, and 
reasoning. 
2. The mechanical faculties, such is drawing, writing, hand 
and eye training, manual work, and technical work, also require 
to be trained. Manual work can be done in the primary 
schools, provided (1) that the present programme be consider- 
ably curtailed; (2) that the number of adult teachers be in- 
creased. Technical work can only be done in special schools, 
properly equipped and staffed by experts. 
Beyond the primary schools there ought to be Junior Techni- 
cal Colleges and Senior Technical Colleges. 
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6.—A CURRICULUM FOR THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF 
AUSTRALIA. 
By *@)B) Gone; MA. 
[ Abstract. | 
THe author attributes the lack of interest shown by parents in 
Australia concerning the subject of instruction in primary 
schools to the fact that they do not pay directly for their 
children’s education, and that local supervision is practically 
non-existent. A curriculum was outlined that would provide 
disciplinary training as a centre, but would also include 
liberalising and practical studies. He deprecated any attempt 
to specialise in the direction of technical education proper in 
primary schools, but advocated an addition to the well-estab- 
lished subjects of elementary science, drawing, and educational 
handwork. It was pointed out that the good results obtain- 
