Science in National Education 



Consideration of Teachers and others " (p. 6). In 

 connection with the University of Manchester there 

 are now two schools of experiment, and valuable 

 results would follow from the selection of schools 

 in other parts of the country for experimental 

 work in various directions. We need illustrative 

 experiment in methods of teaching English com- 

 position and other subjects in the curriculum. 

 Also careful tests should be made, as already has 

 been done in Germany, of the results of postponing 

 the beginning of Latin till twelve years of age. 

 Inquiries, conducted with quantitative precision, 

 into the questions of school fatigue and the rate 

 of progress made in the chief elementary sub- 

 jects are also needed. The experiments should 

 be carried on systematically for a period of years, 

 and the results gained (records of failures as 

 much as records of success) circulated among the 

 whole body of teachers. It deserves consideration 

 whether there should not be a special Government 

 grant to encourage this experimental work. 



To sum up. For the welfare of English edu- 

 cation, are not these things the most necessary 

 to secure, at all costs, good teachers, and plenty 

 of them, both in secondary and elementary 

 schools ; to give free scope to individual convic- 

 tion ; to pay much more attention to physical 

 training and to the physical well-being of the 

 children, especially in the elementary schools ; to 

 cultivate the power of expression in the mother 

 tongue and the love of good literature ; to spare 

 no effort in training the power of imagination, 



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