VI. 



THE EDUCATION OF A MAN OF SCIENCE 



An Address to the Association of University 

 Women Teachers, January 13, 191 1 



In the following pages I propose to give my 

 own experience of education, that is to say, not of 

 educating others, but of being educated. It seems 

 to me that the education of one's youth becomes 

 clear to one in middle life and old age ; and that 

 what one sees in this retrospect may be worth some 

 rough record and some sort of criticism. One may, 

 of course, be mistaken about what was bad and 

 what was good in one's training. But the experi- 

 ence of the pupil is, at the least, one aspect of the 

 question. And I think that the memories of how 

 we were taught is something much more definite 

 and vivid, something that can be more easily made 

 interesting to one's readers, than the generalised 

 experience gained as a teacher. 



Any record of education which extends fifty 

 years back has a certain value, and my experience 

 may serve as a stepping-stone to that of my 

 father, of which we fortunately have an account 

 in his own words, and these take us back to a 

 period more than one hundred years ago. 



Those of us who are inclined to despair over 

 education as an inherent misfortune of youth, may 



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