TBANSACTIONS OF SECTION L. 8G9 



4. So^ne Considerations hearing on the Practical Study of Fducational 

 Science. By P. A, Barnett, M.A. 



SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 



A Joint Discussion tvith Section A on the Teaching of Mathema'ics, 

 opened by Professor John Perry, F.R.S.^ 



MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 



1. Joint Discussion with Section K on the Teaching of Botany. 



See p. 843. 



2. Joint Discussion tvith Section F on Commercial Education, 

 opened by Mr. L. L. Price. — See p. 751. 



3. Report on the Teaching of Science in Elementary Schools. 

 See Reports, p. 458. 



TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 



The following Papers were read : — 



1. The Influence of Universities and Examining Bodies upon the Work 

 of Elementary Schools. By the Right Reverend John Percival, D.D., 

 Lord Bishop of Hereford. — See Reports, p. 448. 



2. Liberal Education for Boys leaving School at Sixteen or Seventeen 



By H. W. Eve, M.A. 



It is generally admitted that a complete classical education under the best 

 conditions, properly supplemented by other subjects, is thoroughly good of its 

 kind.' For those who have not adequate time the problem of devising a good 

 curriculum is difficult. It is necessary to guard, on the one hand, against a 

 curriculum too exclusively practical, and on the other against the waste of time 

 on a half-finished classical education, generally including no Greek. Too often 

 the result is that time and energy are spent on gaining a very imperfect laiow- 

 ledge of Latin, which might have been more profitably devoted to other subjects. 

 The Latin learnt at school is never kept up : it contributes but little to the forma- 

 tion of intellectual tastes, so necessary as an antidote to trivial and vulgar pur- 

 suits. What is really wanted is a secondary education at once practical and 

 liberal, and that in a world much changed within the lifetime of men not yet 

 old. Science must fill an important place in such an education : not only must 



• Published vyith an account of the Discussion vphich followed the rcadino- of 

 the Paper, Macmillan k, Co., London, 1901. 



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