M. J. EEXDALL, ESQ.^ OX THE TEACHER's YOCATIOX. 



Lower down he says the teacher must both love and like his 

 children. This is a true part of education in the wider sense though 

 forming no part of " teaching," strictly so called. The teacher has 

 to do, the educator more especially has to he. 



On p. 84 we get the raw material, " human metals and fibres," 

 and the finished product, " destiny," but the means that changes 

 the one into the other is ob^-iously education in its widest sense, 

 and not teaching " strictly so called. 



The learned Lecturer points out on p. 85 that education is largely 

 unconscious when he says of the educator, he insensibly raised the 

 tone of those around him." 



One may note here that education in the Board Schools consists 

 mainly of teaching by books and is addressed to consciousness : 

 whereas in our Public Schools the greater part of education is 

 unconscious, and has no books nor direct teaching. Indeed, it is 

 certain that parents pay their heavy school fees, not for book 

 teaching, but for the education of the unconscious, or of character, 

 in its largest sense. 



3Iay I suggest, on p. 87, that Mr. Hardy, in Judefhe Obscure, does 

 not make the dullness of the schoolmaster depend wholly on his 

 teaching, as the Lecturer suggests. 



On p. 89 the Lecturer speaks of instruction chiefly by his own 

 example " : showing his concept that education does not consist 

 mainly in conscious book-teaching, but in unconscious influence. 



At the foot of p. 90 Dr. Eendall himself draws the distinction 

 between the conscious and the subconscious. 



I think he is too polite to Dr. Mercier on p. 91, when he char- 

 acterizes his statement that the schoolmaster knows and teaches 

 nothing but words " as a commonplace. I suggest it is an untruth. 



On p. 92 Dr. Kendall rightly eulogizes the cult of beauty. 



But may I add that there is a danger in the cult of the natural 

 beauty only of the human form. It caused the downfall of Greece. 

 The cult of the true beauty of man embraces the moral and spiritual 

 as well as the physical. The latter alone is a perilous worship, 

 and it is possible that it may be of this that many teachers are 

 afraid. 



The power of the closing passages on p. 93 needs no eulogy from 

 me. Its full force lies in the thoughts behind the words, and not 

 merely in the expression used, and touches our highest ideals. 



