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increased by the proper use of Saturday and holiday courses 

 of instruction for teachers. 



The county of Cambridge gives a brilliant example of the 

 full development of these courses, with the result that in 

 every school in the county all practical processes of home 

 management are admirably taught ; in most counties the ten- 

 dency is to concentrate more attention upon giving boys this 

 manual instruction, and the girls in this respect are sometimes 

 overlooked ; but in Cambridge it is rather the reverse. This 

 county is doing most valuable work in showing what can be 

 done in manual instruction for girls. It is essential that our 

 future housewives and mothers should be taught the elements 

 of home management at school, for they can as a rule learn 

 it nowhere else. 



I will not go into detail as to subjects and methods. But 

 the guiding principle should be that the manual instruction 

 must be given by a member of the actual school staff, and here 

 I would like to refer you to the leaflets published by the 

 National Scheme of Handwork Committee. 



From what has been said, it is evident that the personality 

 and qualifications of the teacher are matters of supreme 

 importance. In the past the curriculum of the training college 

 has been far from satisfactory ; in theory the importance of 

 manual work was admitted, but at the training college manual 

 subjects have been more or less optional, and in no way have 

 received the attention that their importance demands. There 

 is little doubt that manual subjects will become more and more 

 an inherent part of the training college curriculum. But we 

 must remember that even to-day a large number of future 

 teachers do not go through any college. It is therefore most 

 important to develop the other methods of training teachers. 

 All teachers ought to go through a college or university 

 course ; but the training they are to receive after they leave 

 school and before they go U> the college is a matter deserving 

 of the clrwest attention. A few years ago the effort was made 

 to induce all would-be teachers, on leaving the elementary 

 school, to go on to a secondary school, but in country districts 



