IX 

 Science in Education 1 



When the history of Education during the nineteenth 

 century comes to be written, one of its most striking 

 features will be presented by the rise and growth 

 of Science in the general educational arrangements of 

 every civilised country. At the beginning of the 

 century our schools and colleges were still following, 

 with comparatively little change, the methods and 

 subjects of tuition that had been in use from the 

 time of the Middle Ages. But the extraordinary 

 development of the physical and natural sciences, which 

 has done so much to alter the ordinary conditions 

 of life, has powerfully affected also our system of 

 public instruction. The medieval circle of studies 

 has been widely recognised not to supply all the 

 mental training needed in the ampler range of modern 

 requirement. Science has, step by step, gained a 

 footing in the strongholds of the older learning. 

 Not without vehement struggle, however, has she 



1 An address to the students of Mason University College, Bir- 

 mingham, at the opening of the session, on Tuesday, 4th October, 

 1898. 



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