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12th March, igoy. 



Professor Johnson Symington, M.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.E. 



in the Chair. 



SOME GERMAN EDUCATIONAL METHODS AND 

 IDEALS. 



By James Alex. Lindsay, M.D., F.R.C.P. (London). 



(Abstract). 



By universal consent education had been managed in Germany 

 with conspicuous success Germany had an educational system 

 which was an organic whole, which was fully articulated and 

 completely co-ordinated, and which satisfied both her needs and 

 her aspirations. The secrets of the success of German education 

 might be summarised as follows : — 



(x) Education in Germany had been exhaustively studied as a 

 speciality. 



(2) Education had been pursued in that country for its own 

 sake and for its own legitimate rewards. 



(3) Sectarian difficulties had been, on the whole, slight. 



(4) A strongly-centralised national administration had interested 

 itself actively in education and given the cause of education 

 generous support, while at the same time local control of education 

 had been efficient, and municipalities had risen to the height of 

 their duty in this matter. 



(5) Education had been kept cheap, partly owing to the 

 moderate standard of living in Germany, partly to the willingness 

 of able men to work on low salaries. 



(6) Competition amongst the various areas of the German 

 Empire had been healthy, and has not excluded co-operation for 

 important ends. 



(7) The German universities had known how to combine 

 successfully the work of teaching and the work of research, so 



