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pupil teachers ; and then, if found satisfac- 

 tory, they should be sent on to the training 

 college. 1 



There must be a national system of training 

 colleges sufficient to train effectively all would-be 

 teachers. The training must be more practical 

 and less academic than at present. A certain 

 modicum of rural economy should be taught to 

 all teachers as a subject without which the 

 training of any teacher is incomplete ; and while 

 it may be important to give greater facilities 

 for access to the Universities, it is the training 

 college that must turn out the type of teacher 

 now required to bring English education into 

 line with the requirements of the time. 2 



{b) Elementary Education. — This need only be 

 mentioned here briefly. In town and country 

 alike it must be made more practical, and the 

 manual method must be adopted. Where this 

 method is adopted by capable teachers the result 

 is entirely beneficial. The children acquire more 

 initiative, and show an increasing interest and 

 intelligence in their work ; and parents welcome 

 the method and become more interested in their 

 children's education. 3 



To secure for rural districts an adequate supply 

 of efficient teachers more inducements must 



1 A practical scheme on these lines has been drawn up by Mr. Walter 

 Birkett, the school inspector of the Lindsey C.C. 



-' See the Report of the Rural Education Conference, 191 1, Cd. 5773. 

 3 See Seventh Report Rural Education Conference, 1913, Cd. 6571. 



