614 
The British Association 
[October, 
literarv teaching have different methods, foi while the 
teacher of Literature rests on authority and I on books , for h » 
guidance, the teacher of Science dls “ rd « a "‘ h J‘t y for 
pends on faas at first hand and on the hook .of N atu,e ^ 
their interpretation. Natural science more and " 10 . r f ’ 
iKelf into the teaching of the laboiatoiy. In y 
can be used as a powerful means of quickening observation 
and of creating a' faculty of induction alter the manner of 
/nrlio- the Babylonian described by Voltaue. _ 
Sir Lyon Playfair complains, with the fullest jus ice that 
in our schools and colleges the time and the “ 
in ^subsequent 
play a tune s another point perhaps even 
and .. m0ne „^ ,IT ft .V teachem of Science are not paid by 
m °ialied P “ resuits ” Their college curricula do not involve 
a°constant preparation for examinations. The Principle of 
competition plays no prominent figuie. > piayfair 
merely examining universities. Now, as b ) - nQt 
admits our inferiority, it seems stiange British and 
possible that the fault heSd^ re ^ n A d t ’ over the difficulty. 
WhThfit said with truth that the senior boys in a g^m'nar 
SC e told'""!" ?hTboyswL ea sh,ne T school disappear at the 
incapacity ” of which Sir Lyon Playfair complains has been 
asi b ^ 
° U The & president MSh tells us that- 
„ p her all 1 foreign States are strangely deceived in their 
