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One of tlie pressing problems for investigation is to consider principles oil wlilcll 

 results can be tested : bere we sbould refer to a remarkable inquiry conducted in 

 ^Vmerican cities by Dr. Rice.^ Our English examining bodies collect every year 

 a large mass of material which could be utilised to capital advantage for research, 

 if means were at hand. 



8. This leads us to a final group which takes the student outside the school 

 walls: the administration and control of educational institutions. Here we hare 

 a field in which the methods of political science offer the model. 



This cursor}- sketch serves to indicate the vast field that lies before the teaching 

 profession when (he time comes for tlie teacher to be trained on lines which 

 demand an approach to scientific method. There are some signs that the Govern- 

 ment, which controls so intimately the training of teachers, is beginning to realise 

 its responsibility to take the lead in this work, by affording means to universities 

 and training colleges to make a beginning: the Education Bill of 190G contained 

 a clause on behalf of Demonstration Schools. But a fully equipped Department 

 of Education in a university would be at least as costly to maintain as a medical 

 school. It may be worth while for this Association to set on foot some means 

 for collecting information as to the extent to which work is being attempted 

 (either in Departments of Education or in schools) of a quality that can make 

 pretensions to be regarded as scientific. 



5. Report on Changes affecting Secondary Education. — See Reports, p. 525. 

 ' Publiahed in TIte Furiivi, from January 1901 to January 1902. 



