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lectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral 

 teaching." 



As to the sub-committee on books and apparatus, it did 

 little at first, but at the beginning of the second Board, 1873, it 

 became better organised under the presidency of the Rev. Benja- 

 min Waugh. At the commencement of the next triennial term 

 I became the chairman, and continued to be such for eighteen 

 years. It was our duty to put into practice the scheme of 

 instruction which Huxley was mainly instrumental in settling. 

 We were thus able indirectly to improve both the means and 

 methods of teaching. The subjects of instruction have all been 

 retained in the Curriculum of the London School Board, except, 

 perhaps, " mensuration " and " social economy." The most im- 

 portant developments and additions have been in the direction 

 of educating the hand and eye. Kindergarten methods have 

 been promoted. Drawing, on which Huxley laid more stress 

 than his colleagues generally did, has been enormously extended 

 and greatly revolutionised in its methods. Object lessons and 

 elementary science have been introduced everywhere, while 

 shorthand, the use of tools for boys, and cookery and domestic 

 economy for girls are becoming essentials in our schools. Even- 

 ing continuation schools have lately been widely extended. 

 Thus the impulse given by Huxley in the first months of the 

 Board's existence has been carried forward by others, and is 

 now affecting the minds of the half million of boys and girls 

 in the Board Schools of London, and indirectly the still greater 

 number in other schools throughout the land. 



I must further express my thanks to Bishop Barry for 

 permission to make use of the following passages from the 

 notes contributed by him to Dr. Gladstone : — 



I had the privilege of being a member of his committee for 

 defining the curriculum of study, and here also — the religious 

 question being disposed of — I was able to follow much the same 

 line as his, and I remember being struck not oniy with his clear- 

 headed ability, but with his strong commonsense, as to what was 

 useful and practicable, and the utter absence in him of doc- 

 trinaire aspiration after ideal impossibilities. There was (I 

 think) very little under his chairmanship of strongly accentu- 

 ated difference of opinion. 



In his action on the Board generally I was struck with these 

 three characteristics : — First, his remarkable power of speaking 



