Education and Agriculture 



by inducing the respective Councils to send to 

 the meetings of the County Council Association 

 in London, as well as their chairman and 

 secretary an acknowledged educationalist who 

 would endeavour to keep his own council in 

 line with the general movement. It might be 

 possible in fact to have two meetings a year 

 definitely given up to the consideration of how 

 best to deal with formulative schemes. The 

 discussions should be more or less informal and 

 members should be encouraged to describe any 

 experiments that had come under their notice 

 and to outline possible developments. 



At present the meetings of the education 

 committees, both of the County Council Asso- 

 ciation and the respective Councils, are so over- 

 weighted with the ordinary routine business that 

 there is little time to consider properly the for- 

 mulation of new schemes, and in consequence 

 many alterations and reforms are delayed that 

 would otherwise be accepted unanimously. 



As the committees of the County Council 

 Association evince much diffidence in issuing 

 direct recommendations to the County Councils, 

 for fear of wounding their susceptibilities, per- 

 haps the best method will be to endeavour to 

 make the Rural Education Conferences, which 

 are now to be held half-yearly, fulfil this function, 

 and thus secure increased uniformity of action. 

 Also the nature study exhibition held at the 



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