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200 UNIVERSITY LOCAL EXAMINATIONS*
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In The Years 1857 And 1858, Examinations...
time upon them . But for all purposes , whether of mental discipline or of life , such knowledge is as worthless , as a real acquaintance with these sciences
Is valuable . And the only certain means of securing that reality is to study the things which are the subjects of the sciences , and not merely the books about them . . . .
44 If the examination be taken as a whole , and the peculiar circumstances attending ground for a say first ing experiment , that a _? good be many fairly of considered the candidates , there showed is certainl proofs y just of
having been extremely well taught .. The papers of the rest gave the impression of hard work , considerable intelligence ,-not-much cultivation , and a singular want of purpose . There was often a tolerably wide range of
Information , and sometimes no small amount of original thought ; but their candidates information who showed ¦ together both , and these _^ still frequentl less power y showed of expressing little power it of _; in putting clear
language . There seemed to be , in many instances , all the materials of a good respect prep education are . ¦ for _¦ , The but definite experience not the examin form of ations . > a sing There will le _; graduall is reason would y to ' lead hardl hope to , justif improvement that the the attempt Delegacy in this to
year y y In The suggesting industry correctives which the which whole the plainl schoolmaster y proves _^ is mi a foundation ght advantageousl on which y adopt any- _? . must thing be wha not tever onl may gradual be safel but y thoroug built . hl But assimilated any improvement to what alread , to be y exists sound . ,
The probability y is , that the , schoolmasters y will discover for themselves , year after year , what can be done in this direction , better than others can point it out to them . What is most wanted at present is close attention to the
subjects included under the Preliminary Examination . " * The First Report of the Cambridge Syndicate conveys more
briefly a not dissimilar impression . , 46 In the preliminary portion of the Examination , the parts best done were
seniors reading , , Eng writing lish composition from dictation . , geography , and also in the case of the 44 In the arithmetic papers the questions which required for their solution
who simple 4 satisfied applications * ' the Examiners of well-known with rules fair averag were e answered correctness by . those But candidates wherever as in a few cases , something more was required , as for ; instance _^ when the ,
enunciation a clear statement of a of well it . -known The Examiners rule was asked wish to for call , few attention succeeded to this in , as giving it is clearlv desirable that boys should be taught to describe distinctlthe several
steps in arithmetical operations . If junior students be not required y to give their the reason figures of with the w rules _^ _brds , they and to ougnt point at out least how to each be accustomed step of their to work associate is in
of obedience senior candidates to the give to n the rule , re . quirement The Examiners in the Regulations desire also to of call the the princi attention ples as well as the practice of arithmetic .
can " d In idates the was English unsatisfactory history the , especial Examiners ly among _rej _> ort the , th juniors at the performance . Of these forty of the - six failed to passbut this number of failures does not measure the full extent
¦ ter which of , the and general their the candidates knowled deficiency , had . would The received be questions tested notice . were of But the of their a range very an elementary swers of reading even charac within when - ge
that accurate meagre , showed hand a -books general had unifo been rmity placed of expi before _* ession the , which students seemed to , be to ' got imp up ly , '
answers and interest that of of little the their senior attempt pup candidates ils by been questionings were mad on e the by or their average remark instructors superior s of their to to those own excite . of The the the
* First Annual Report of the Oxford Delegacy .
200 University Local Examinations*
200 _UNIVERSITY LOCAL EXAMINATIONS *
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 200, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/56/
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