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schools of pictorial and plastic art, of architecture, 

 and of music, will offer a thorough discipline 

 in the principles and practice of art to those in 

 whom lies nascent the rare faculty of aesthetic 

 representation, or the still rarer powers of creative 

 genius. 



The primary school and the university are 

 the alpha and omega of education. Whether 

 institutions intermediate between these (so- 

 called secondary schools) should exist, appears 

 to me to be a question of practical con- 

 venience. If such schools are established, the 

 important thing is that they should be true in- 

 termediaries between the primary school and the 

 university, keeping on the wide track of general 

 culture, and not sacrificing one branch of know- 

 ledge for another. 



Such appear to me to be the broad outlines of the 

 relations which the university, regarded as a place 

 of education, ought to bear to the school, but a 

 number of points of detail require some considera- 

 tion, however briefly and imperfectly I can deal 

 with them. In the first place, there is the import- 

 ant question of the limitations which should be 

 fixed to the entrance into the university ; or, what 

 qualifications should be required of those who 

 propose to take advantage of the higher training 

 offered by the university. On the one hand, it 

 is obviously desirable that the time and oppor- 

 tunities of the university should not be wasted 



