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of the talking faculty, verbalism, is in any case a baneful enough tendency 

 in humanity without laying broad its foundations in child instruction. 

 Rather should conservatism of words and care that to every word used 

 there shall be a concrete image in the mind, be the ideal of pedagogy. 



On the other hand you have in music an educative engine powerful 

 in its influence on the negro, because there is in him naturally a facility 

 in this respect and the corresponding lively interest in its exercise. The 

 different expressions of the faces of children of the different races, when 

 engaged in this exercise is an object lesson for the educationist, if he 

 cares to take it. 



The converse is true of drawing as an educational factor in respect 

 of the race differences of .vhich we are speaking. The Buck and East 

 Indian child will here be found to be as prominent in facility as the negro 

 child is lacking and, in their case, a sane educational system should look 

 to the exercise of this natural bent for an effect analogous to thit of 

 music in the case of the negro. 



Only at the cost of great loss can uniformity of treatment displace 

 recognition of differing racial gifts and disabilities. 



It is impossible, even if I had the sufficient knowledge of the various 

 racial units which I do not claim, to go fully in this article through the 

 items of instruction. One grave oversight in all school systems I may 

 however in conclusion briefly refer to. While the senses of sight and 

 hearing receive more or less haphazard training, and the exigencies of 

 daily life look after the senses of taste and touch the olfactory sense, one 

 of the most valuable channels of knowledge, is absolutely ignored. The 

 first sign of grace in the framing of codes will appear in that which makes 

 some provision for education of this faculty, so vitally important as an 

 instrument of inquiry and prophylaxis. In those items of our school rolls 

 least removed from primitive conditions of life, the greatest facility will 

 naturally be found, and the education of the faculty will the more power- 

 fully function in their mental development. 



I recognise that these considerations all point to differentiation of 

 standards and tests in respect of different types, a thing somewhat difficult, 

 it may be, to organize. Under the new method of assessing grants, it is 

 not however so impossible as under that which it his replaced and, any- 

 how, no amount of trouble or difficulty is an argument for the mainten- 

 ance of what is irrational and subversive of those benefits for which the 

 colony expends its grants. 



Finally a word to the Board of Education. Its deliberations will be 

 much more serviceable to the community when it turns its attention to 

 questions fundamentaf in reasonable code building, and has less pre- 

 occupation in finance of buildings, payment of teachers and control of a 

 system which in the past has been pretty nearly useless from the Econo- 



