April  9, 1895.  JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE 
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PELARGONIUMS 
( Popularly  mis-called  Geraniums ). 
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TUBEROUS  BEGONIAS 
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Scotland, 
THURSDAY,  APRIL  9,  1896. 
EDUCATION. 
EDUCATION  is  the  order  of  the  day.  It 
meets  us  everywhere.  It  is  the  prominent 
topic  in  newspapers,  clubs,  railway  carriages,  and 
homes  ;  indeed,  it  may  be  said  with  a  near 
approach  to  literary  accuracy  that  education  is 
now  in  almost  everybody’s  mouth.  What  is  the 
impelling  motive  of  this  educational  activity) 
what  the  object,  and  what  may  be  expected  to  be 
the  eventual  results  ?  Passing  entirely  and 
absolutely  all,  to  us,  subsidiary  issues,  brushing 
aside  all  SHch  questions  as  Voluntaryism^ 
Boardism,  and  other  isms,  and  leaving  them  to  be 
dealt  with  by  others  to  whom  they  are  dear,  and 
in  places  to  which  they  are  fitting,  we  refer  to 
the  matter  in  the  concrete,  so  to  say,  and  especially 
to  those  aspects  of  it  in  which  we,  in  common 
with  a  wide  constituency,  are  more  particularly 
interested,  and  as  applicable  to  the  art  more  than 
ever  important,  with  which  we  and  they  are  so 
closely  identified. 
We  should  be  glad  to  think  that  the  wide  and 
deep  interest  now  invested  in  educational  matters 
is  founded  on  a  recognition  of  our  national  short¬ 
comings  in  the  methods  of  imparting  knowledge, 
elementary  and  advanced,  a9  compared  with  those 
in  operation  in  other  lands.  An  uneducated 
community  can  no  more  maintain  a  position  of 
equality,  to  say  nothing  of  superiority,  with 
rivals  who  are  educated  in  particular  arts  than 
barbarism  can  long  resist  the  force  of  civilisation, 
and  we  have  to  remember  that  competing  com- 
munities  once  distant  are  now  very  near  ;  in  fact, 
nations,  though  widely  separated  geographically, 
are  now  actually  linked  together,  each  striving, 
with  all  the  resources  at  command,  to  meet  the 
wants,  we  had  almost  said  of  the  world,  but 
may  well  pause  on  the  threshold  and  say  the 
needs  of  our  own  populations.  We  simply 
cannot  afford  to  allow  other  nations  to  advance 
in  the  arts  of  production  while  we,  the  most 
negligent  of  many  of  our  inherent  resources, 
crawl  along  slowly  in  smug,  self-satisfied  isolation. 
The  lax  educational  s y  stems,  or  want  of  systems, 
of  past  generations  do  not  suffice  for  present  day 
needs,  and  still  less  can  they  suffice  for  future 
requirements.  W ith  rival  countries  now  in  matters 
of  time  and  transit,  close  to  our  doors,  ever 
seeking  to  strengthen  the  intellects  as  well  as  to 
No.  2480. — VOL.  XOIV.  OLD  SERIES. 
