CHAPTEE X 



1892 



Several letters of this year touch on educational 



subjects. The following advice as to the best training 



for a boy in science, was addressed to Mr. Briton 



Riviere, E.A. : — 



HoDESLEA, June 19, 1892. 



My dear Eiviere — Touching the training of your boy 

 who wants to go in for science, I expect you will have to 

 make a compromise between that which is theoretically 

 desirable and that which is practically most advantageous, 

 things being as they are. 



Though I say it that shouldn't, I don't believe there 

 ia so good a training in physical science to be got anywhere 

 as in our College at South Kensington. But Bernard 

 could hardly with advantage take this up until he is 

 seventeen at least. What he would profit by most as a 

 preliminary, is training in the habit of expressing himself 

 well and clearly in English ; training in mathematics and 

 the elements of physical science ; in French and German, 

 so as to read those languages easily — especially German ; 

 in drawing — not for hifalutin art, of which he will 

 probably have enough in the blood — but accurate dry 

 reproduction of form — one of the best disciplines of the 

 powers of observation extant. 



On the other hand, in the way of practical advantage 



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