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To take Portraits as an example, it would be easy to have a 

 more representative and a more instructive collection than the 

 invaluable one now displayed in our National Portrait 

 Gallery. 



We venture to regard the development of Objective Educa- 

 tion — as distinct from mere book- or word-teaching — as the 

 great educational reform of the future. It is the only plan 

 which will enable teachers to keep up with the increasing 

 demands upon them. It relieves the memory of the pupil 

 by giving clear visualised impressions of things. Such 

 impressions it is as difficult to forget as it is but too often 

 difficult to remember those which have been acquired by 

 merely verbal explanation. The sum of knowledge that is 

 not only teachable but very desirable to be taught, increases 

 every year, and it is becoming absolutely essential to devise 

 improved methods for its mastery. 



The advantages to the Garden City which might be 

 expected to accrue from the possession of such a Museum 

 would be many. It might become to some small extent a 

 source of income ; and it might also induce fathers of families 

 to settle there for the benefit of their children. Chiefly, how- 

 ever, it would attract the proprietors of private schools to 

 become residents in order to secure at small cost the advan- 

 tages of a very liberal school equipment. Under the present 

 scheme, which compels each proprietor to provide his own 

 models, specimens, portraits, maps, &c, not only is much 

 needless expense incurred, but the provision secured is but 

 too often wholly inadequate. 



We venture to commend our suggestion to the considera- 

 tion of the Advisory Committee, and in doing so may add 

 that it would not be needful to begin on a large scale provided 

 only that land-space was reserved for future developments. 



