22 HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURES 



tory, though the difference in the subject matter 

 and the occasion made a difference in the form in 

 which these were put forward. In the academic 

 lecture-room the professional student is taught in 

 part only; he comes to it already fashioned in 

 part. In the school the child has to be taught 

 wholly and from the beginning ; his whole nature 

 is placed in the teacher's hands. Yet the right 

 method of teaching is in both cases at bottom the 

 same. Throughout Huxley's system of profes- 

 sional teaching, which I have attempted to de- 

 scribe, the effort to combine breadth of view with 

 clearness and exactitude of insight, there ran the 

 fundamental idea that the real goal of profes- 

 sional teaching is not to fill the head with stores 

 of knowledge, however accurate, however well 

 adapted for professional use, but to lay the 

 foundations of, and to develop as far as possible, 

 all those qualities which go to make up the effec- 

 tive scientific professional character. And the 

 goal of school teaching which Huxley put before 

 him was the development of the whole nature, the 

 building up of a fit character in the schoolboy or 

 schoolgirl. If in professional teaching it was 

 needful to keep this goal steadily in view, it was, 

 in his eyes, a thousand times more needful to keep 

 it in view at the school in the few, but pregnant, 

 years during which the lad or lass comes under 

 the moulding hands of the teacher. In the 

 school, above all other places, everything should 

 be made subservient to this great end. 



