SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS.— L, M. 407 



This is due to general lack of knowledge of its aims and methods even by- 

 many who profess to be educational experts. It has the boring effect of 

 forcing its exponents into the position of apologists. Technical education 

 is not a scheme of acute specialisation at all ages and stages. 



There is to-day practically no conscious relationship between Technical 

 and Secondary education. Some of the products of Secondary Schools 

 do proceed to Senior Technical Courses — both full-time and part-time 

 courses — but not by any generally organised scheme of transfer. 



So far as Junior Technical Schools are concerned, they have travelled 

 along roads parallel to those of Secondary Schools, but separated by almost 

 impenetrable barriers. 



There could and should be a conscious relationship between Secondary 

 and Technical Schools and a scheme of transfer of suitable pupils. 



The joyous fact that Junior Technical Schools enjoy freedom from any 

 system of rigid examinations should not be an unsurmountable barrier — 

 but we would not be prepared to sacrifice that freedom. 



We claim that ' classical ' and ' modern ' Secondary Schools are not the 

 only educational highways. We are building new highways. They may 

 have some of the ugliness of new arterial roads, but they can and will be 

 beautiful. With unbiased and intelligent co-operation they can be planned 

 to provide valuable by-passes and to link up every part of the educational 

 country. 



Mr. P. Abbott. — The co-operation necessary or possible. 



The range of technical education lies between the junior technical school, 

 ages 13-16, and the university graduate. The problems of co-operation 

 are : 



(i) Are relations possible between the two types of education at corre- 

 sponding ages ? 



(2) Should the work in secondary schools be in any way anticipatory of 

 the work to follow in the higher technical schools ? 



Discussion. (Mr. J. H. Hallam ; Mr. S. H. Moorfield.) 



Afternoon, 



^ Visit to Bootham, Friends', Boarding School for Boys, and The 

 Mount Boarding School for Girls. 



SECTION M.— AGRICULTURE. 



Thursday, September 1. 



Presidential Address by Prof. R. G. White on Sheep Farming : a 

 distinctive feature of British agriculture. (See p. 229.) 



Mr. W. C. Miller. — Certain aspects of the genetics of the sheep and their 

 potential economic significance. 



This paper is intended to focus attention on the incorporation of a know- 

 ledge of sheep genetics into certain methods of sheep-breeding. The diffi- 

 culties encountered in determining modes of inheritance of characters in 

 the larger domesticated animals are discussed. 



