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    While Education Has Certainly Become Wha...

    impregnated with the factious element of politics . The cause of this is not difficult to find ,

    although the finding may not be comfortable II to the reflective observer . With educational

    II politics , however , we have nothing to do , I ! either in its higher administrative aspects ,

    I in its School Board elections , or in its appoint-I ments of managers or door-keepers .

    I On more than one occasion we have had pleasure in noticing some of the useful

    movements which occur in the working world of I education ; those movements which , having

    their origin in teaching communities , are fostered by the teaching profession at large .

    Attention has been directed to the progressive I influence of Unions especially , and to the wide

    sphere of usefulness which may be covered by I transactions of conferences , congresses , and

    I local meetings , at which educationists come I together for the consideration of matters

    affecting their position and their work , as well I as the welfare of their pupils . Last week ' s

    issue of The Schoolmaster , the organ of the profession , contained full reports of two important

    I congresses which occurred during Christmas I ! week . These were the Educational Congress at

    I ! Glasgow and the Irish Teachers' Congress at I Dublin . ^ Hl i

    II ^¦ 1 At the former a very considerable number of II urgent subjects were discussed . The president ,

    1 who opened the meeting with a very able I address , was Mr . David Ross , Principal of the

    Training College , Dundas Vale , Glasgow . * Free Education ' was the subject of the first

    discussion , the leading paper being read by Mr . William Mitchell . Mr . George Crichton ,

    Chairman of the Go van School Board , then followed Geograph with y . Another * The Teaching Chairman of History of a School and

    Board 4 The Future , Mr . A of . S our . Mories Standard , of Greenock Scholars / , led c The off

    Position of Science in Modern Education' was treated by Professor Cleland , M . D ., F . B . S .

    An able paper on l Education in its Physical P ^ elati on s' was delivered by Mr . Jolly , H . M .

    Inspector of Schools ; and Mr . Chinnock , Rector of Dumfries Academy , dealt with

    1 Secondary Education in Scotland % 0 f . ' The appearance ]/ oai . cinuc ; of % jj . tx a deputation u < 3 jjuu « i < i / j . vjijl of ktl Eng juiixgnan lish teachers tDawicio

    ^ ave an oppor tunity for discussing the comparative educational positions of England and

    Scotland . An extensive exhibition of schoolbooks and general appliances for teaching

    formed an important attraction at the Congress . Perhaps it was owing to the unsettled times

    • tad the grievances of Irish teachers that few educational topics were discussed at the Dublin

    meeting . Mr . John Nealon , the retiring president , delivered the opening address , whiclk

    contained much that was interesting regarding

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    the position and aspirations of Irish teachers . His remarks struck the key-note of thevWhole \

    meeting , which , was passed in the consideration of teachers' affairs , and of parliamentary

    measures for their improvement financially and otherwise .

    The subjects brought forward at the Glas- \\ . gow meeting would have confounded the

    schoolmasters of a past generation . Every year education seems to be drawing new forces to ;

    its aid . Its advance shows a wide and sensible e xtension of subjects . But the requirements of ;

    the present day are proper modes for the inculcation of these subjects , so that their endurance

    may be assured as useful to individuals and communities . Educationists are very hopeful

    as to the result . But we must not forget the story of Steele ' s pastry-cook , who * would not

    yet take his son away from his learning , but was resolved , as soon as he had a little

    smattering in the Greek , to put him apprentice to a ; soap-boiler . ' The humourist continues : 'These

    wrong beginnings deternflAne our success in the : world : and when our thoughts are originally

    falsely biassed , their agility and force do but carry us the further out of our way , in

    proportion to our speed . ' No one can deny that the tendency of the times inclines to cramming .

    Educationally , however , weare even yet in an experimental stage . The process of perfecting

    our system is wholly in the hands of the prac- : tical teacher , who , if left untrammelled , will

    eventually see a way to clear off impediments , and establish reasonable and sound modes of

    tuition . Above all things it is desirable that our manhood , even in humble spheres , should

    have as little as possible of the regret of the great Montaigne , when he said ; ' I see better

    than any man else that what I have set down is nought but the fond imaginations of Mm

    who in his youth hath tasted nothing but the paring , and seen but the superficies of true ,

    learning : whereof he hath retained but a general and shapeless form : a smack of

    everything in general , but nothing to the purpose in particular . '

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    other educational apparatus , which , formed , a , striking attraction at the Educational

    Congress of a similar in Glas character gow , was which larger has than been any seen display in

    Scotland . The exhibitors and their representatives were : Represented by

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 15, 1886, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15011886/page/5/