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best adapted for introduction into primary schools, is the repre- 

 sentation of bodies of simple form by plans, sections and elevations 

 draivn to scale, or with figured dimensions. To carry out these 

 views in England, it would be necessary that the Committee of 

 Council on Education should add clauses to the Revised Code, 

 under which they should, out of the annual grant made by 

 Parliament, undertake to aid inspected schools giving instruc- 

 tion in elementary mechanical drawing, by annual capitation 

 grants conditional on the attainment of a certain standard of 

 proficiency as attested by the inspector ; in other words, this 

 first and most elementary branch of science should be put on the 

 same footing as reading, writing, and arithmetic. It would also 

 be necessary that the teachers trained in normal schools should 

 be required to take up this special study. By these simple 

 regulations the new study would gradually but surely be intro- 

 duced throughout the primary schools of the country. 



I regret that I am not yet sufficiently familiar with the 

 machinery by which the primary schools in Scotland are 

 managed, to be able to make any practical suggestion as to how 

 and where the experiment should here be first tried, but one 

 application will suggest itself to all our minds I allude to the 

 great charitable hospitals with which Edinburgh is surrounded. 

 Some, at least, of these are devoted to the education of artisans, 

 and all are intended for the instruction of the productive 

 classes the classes which use machinery if they do not make 

 it. I believe there is no attempt to teach mechanical drawing 

 in any one of these, and I assert that it should be taught in all. 



But when a suggestion of this kind is made, it is continually 

 met with the question, How are we to find time ? the boys 

 are already fully occupied, and what can we give up ? As an 

 answer to this,. I will read what was the programme of a well- 

 managed Edinburgh hospital and that of a Prussian industrial 

 school. 



Scotland. Latin, French, English, writing, drawing, sing- 

 ing, dancing, drilling. 



Prussia 1st Course. Mathematics, chemistry, physics, 

 German, arithmetic, drawing, architectural drawing, machine 

 drawing, modelling. 



The Latin, French, dancing, singing, and drilling have dis- 



