3:884.] 
On Technical Education. 
85 
Exhibitions and Maintenance Allowances. 
12 Exhibitions, at £50 a year, tenable for 
three or four years £600 
4 Scholarships, of £15 each 60 
2 Scholarships, of £25 each 50 
50 teachers in training, at £1 is. a week 1900 
200 Teachers for short courses, £2 each ... 400 
268 
£3010 
The plan which appears to have very generally come into 
vogue within the last few years, of forcing the student 
attending lectures on any of the Inductive Sciences to take 
down in his note-book, as completely and perfectly as pos- 
sible, the very words the lecturer utters, and some time after 
submitting the copy to the lecturer or his assistant, and 
being questioned upon the ledtures at stated times, either by 
a written or viva voce examination, appeared to be a method 
very much approved of at one of the two autumnal meetings 
I have already referred to; it is therefore deserving of 
notice. 
The method of teaching the Indudtive Sciences by means 
ot Ledtuies, especially if they are not rendered catechetical, 
is a most irrational and delusive plan as far as the student 
is concerned, for the ledturer does not know how the instruc- 
tion he is giving is being mentally received by his different 
hearers,-— whether the words he utters remain passively in 
tne mind as mere words, or, if not passively received as 
mere woids, whether the mind is forming correct or incor- 
redt ideas upon the subjedt ledtured upon ; the students 
might as well be “ stocks of wood or stone,” so far as the 
Jedtui er is aware how the instruction he is giving is operating 
on their minds. & 
The only advantage a lecture on an experimental science 
nas over a book, the book having many advantages over the 
lecture, is this, the student sees, or ought to see, the expe- 
riments performed at the lecture, whereas he only reads 
j. ^ em the book ; the difference corresponds to the 
difference between seeing a picture and simply reading about 
it. But with regard to such a non-experimental science as 
Geology, if it is not taught in the field, but only in the 
ledture-room, a standard work on the science well illustrated 
with diagrams is superior, almost in every respect, as a 
teaching agent, to such unpractical and unnatural teaching • 
