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Excerpt from The University and the Schools: An Address Read Before the Queen's University Council and the Kingston School Board, and a Synopsis of the Discussion of This Address by the Members Present
It will somewhat simplify matters, if we begin by asking what is the best general education for the higher professions the church, law, u editine, teaching, and the technical profess. Io..s. By'goneral' education I mean the training which the aspirant to one of these professions should undergo before he enters upon his special professional training. Perhaps Ihave not quite put the question in the best way let me rather say, the training which will best fit a boy for any of these professions for, as I have said, it is not always possible. Nor does it seem desir able, that the precise career oi our youth shouldbe pro-deter mined. We must, in framing or modifying our system of educao tion, bear in mind that our aim must be to produce, not a single type of citizen, but all types. We must seek to produce the highest type of clergyman, lawyer, doctor, scientific specialist and business man. Hence. We must not ask merely how industry and commerce may be best developed, any more than how scholars and scientific ipecialists may be best developed: our question Ills be, how all the most perfect types should be produced. This seems sumciently obvious, and yet we find so eminent a statesman as Lord Roseberry approaching the question solely from the side of British commerce and industry. In his anxiety to maintain the pro-eminence of England in these departments, he is led to attack the educational methods of Oxford and Cam bridge, and to suggest that Greek, and perhaps Latin, should form no part of their curriculum: that they should devote them selves entirely to sr'snce, and especially to science as applied to the industrial arts. And in support of his view he points to Ger many as a country that has prospered by supplying technical instruction.
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