SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS.— L. 513 



2. Function. 



(a) Weatherproof, (b) Purpose of units, (c) Size of units, (d) Ven- 

 tilation and air-space, (e) Heating. (/) Lighting, (g) Circulation. 

 (h) Detail (furniture, etc.). 



3. Human Association. 



(a) Reaction of the mind to environment, (b) Scale, (c) Surface 

 texture of materials, {d) Detail, (e) Colour. (/) General atmo- 

 sphere. 



4. Esthetic Value. 



{a) General massing of proportion. (6) Perspective, (c) Proportion 

 of detail, {d) Relationship of 2 and 3. {e) Final adjustments. 



In no way must aesthetic value distort function, but must be a direct 

 expression of this and also of Human Association. All must grow naturally 

 from one to the other. 



Description of a school designed in this way. 



Mr. W. D. Seymour (11.55). 



The change in attitude towards problems of heating and ventilation, 

 which dates from the beginning of the present century, has resulted in a 

 great deal of research in applying the new principles. 



During the past ten years many experiments have been carried out on 

 the heating and ventilation of schools, first by the Industrial Health Research 

 Board, and more recently by the National Institute of Industrial Psychology. 

 In studies undertaken by investigators of the latter body, an attempt has 

 been made to determine the most suitable conditions for school children 

 at work and, in a school equipped specially for the purpose, experiments 

 have been made to compare the suitability of different types of heating 

 equipment. 



The paper deals with these experiments, and with corresponding ones on 

 the natural and artificial lighting of schools. In addition, some account is 

 given of subsidiary experiments on the design of equipment. 



Friday, August 19. 



Presidential Address by Mr. John Sargent on The proper function of 

 administration in public education (lo.o). (See p. 235.) 



Discussion on Education for a changing society (11. o). 

 {a) Senior Schools. 



Mr. W. H. Robinson (ii.o). 

 The Senior School is the school of the people — the football crowd, the 

 cheap cinema audience, the factory ' hands,' the shop assistants, the trades- 

 unionists, the vast majority of the voters ; in short, ' democracy.' The 

 majority of the Senior School pupils will receive no further organised 

 education as long as they live but will be ' educated ' by their environment 

 — physical and mental. 



There is no lack of guidance for the teacher as to lohat they should be 

 taught, how they should be taught and what should be expected as the result 

 of this schooling. 



The growing tendency is to insist that the educational environment in 

 which these pupils grow and the experiences through which the daily school 



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