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suggestions and to nnake a cursory review of certain sections 

 of the education problem. 



To sum up the main headings — 



1. Much greater attention should be paid to developing as 

 speedily as possible manual instruction in the elementary 

 schools, 



2. An effective system of continuation instruction must be 

 devised without further loss of time if we are to render the 

 other parts of our present system of education effective, 



3. Lower-grade centres for agricultural instruction should 

 be established, 



4. Farm Lads' Clubs, and Women's Institutes should be 

 created, 



5. Agricultural instruction in Reformatories and Industrial 

 Schools should be developed, 



6. The science in our secondary schools should be revised, 

 and Botany and the Chemistry of living things substituted for 

 Inorganic Chemistry. 



I am not suggesting that these developments could take 

 place all at once throughout the United Kingdom, but I do 

 urge that the time for experiment has more than come ; some 

 of these experiments will undoubtedly cost money, but par- 

 ticularly in regard to elementary education much can be done 

 by alteration and organization, and at a comparatively small 

 expenditure. The great thing is for us to be determined to 

 get a sound and practical education for the money we expend, 

 and we must never for one moment forget that money spent 

 on the right type of education is the soundest and most re- 

 munerative investment into which a nation can put its money. 



THE FISHER ACT 



Since the above was written Mr, Fisher's Bill has been 

 introduced and is now an Act of Parliament, 



It is one of the greatest and most comprehensive enact- 

 ments ever passed by any Government, 



Under it there is the opportunity for developing nearly 

 every suggestion contained in the foregoing paper. Eight 

 hours weekly of continued instruction is provided for. 



