42 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. I 



connected with culture and education, and because of his 

 great fairness and impartiality with regard to all subjects 

 that came under his observation." 



Though Huxley quitted the Board after only fourteen 

 months' service, the memory of his words and acts com- 

 bined to influence it long afterwards. In various ways 

 he expressed his opinion on educational matters, publicly 

 and privately. He frequently talked with me on the 

 subject at the Athenaeum Club, and shortly after my 

 election to the Board in 1873, I find it recorded in my 

 diary that he insisted strongly on the necessity of our 

 building infants' schools, "people may talk about in- 

 tellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the 

 moral teaching." 



As to the sub-committee on books and apparatus, it 

 did little at first, but at the beginning of the second 

 Board, 1873, it became better organised under the 

 presidency of the Eev. Benjamin Waugh. At the com- 

 mencement of the next triennial term I became the 

 chairman, and continued to be such for eighteen years. 

 It was our duty to put into practice the scheme of 

 instruction which Huxley was mainly instrumental in 

 settling. We were thus able indirectly to improve both 

 the means and methods of teaching. The subjects of 

 instruction have all been retained in the Curriculum of 

 the London School Board, except, perhaps, " mensuration " 

 and " social economy." The most important developments 

 and additions have been in the direction of educating the 

 hand and eye. Kindergarten methods have been promoted. 

 Drawing, on which Huxley laid more stress than his 

 colleagues generally did, has been enormously extended 

 and greatly revolutionised in its methods. Object lessons 

 and elementary science have been introduced everywhere, 

 while shorthand, the use of tools for boys, and cookery 

 and domestic economy for girls are becoming essentials in 

 our schools. Evening continuation schools have lately 

 been widely extended. Thus the impulse given by 



