XVI TECHNICAL EDUCATION 409 



And now, having, as I hope, justified my assump- 

 tion of a place among handicraftsmen, and put 

 myself right with you as to my qualification, from 

 practical knowledge, to speak about technical 

 education, I will proceed to lay before you the 

 results of my experience as a teacher of a handi- 

 craft, and tell you what sort of education I should 

 think best adapted for a boy whom one wanted to 

 make a professional anatomist. 



I should say, in the first place, let him have a 

 good English elementary education. I do not 

 mean that he shall be able to pass in such and 

 such a standard that may or may not be an 

 equivalent expression but that his teaching shall 

 have been such as to have given him command of 

 the common implements of learning and to have 

 created a desire for the things of the under- 

 standing. 



Further, I should like him to know the ele- 

 ments of physical science, and especially of physics 

 and chemistry, and I should take care that this 

 elementary knowledge was real. I should like 

 my aspirant to be able to read a scientific treatise 

 in Latin, French, or German, because an enormous 

 amount of anatomical knowledge is locked up in 

 those languages. And especially, I should require 

 some ability to draw I do not mean artistically, 

 for that is a gift which may be cultivated but can- 

 not be learned, but with fair accuracy. I will not 

 say that everybody can learn even this ; for the 



