EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1416, 17 April 1912, Page 8

EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL.

The Department of Education has received gratifying evidence of tho esteem in which its publications are held in other countries. It has for some time been the practice of the Department to send copies of the publications to the Education Departments of other parts of the Empire, and to those of a few other countries which have expressed an interest in them, and to ask lor exchange publications in return. The matter issued by the New Zealand Department includes as specialities the "School Journal" and the moro recent, and therefore less known, but not less interesting historical pictures and geographical charts and pictures. All these pictures and charts are printed on cards of convenient size for class teaching —about the size of a telegraph form— many of them being process reproductions of superior works of art and high-class photographs. They form with tho "Journal" a very interesting departure in teaching material, and as sucli they aro ey.idently regarded by educational authorities elsewhere.

Professor M'Cready, of tho Ontario Agricultural College, Director of Momentary Agricultural Education for Ontario, has written that the scheme of tho pictures and charts .strikes him as exceptionally good, and that those and the "Journal" will l)-o of great uto to him in shaping some of his own plans. He is preparing his first issue, of charts nnd leaflets, and will send all the publications of his Department. He has asked several big railway companies and Stale Departments to send to New Zealand photographs which may Iμ used for educational purpose.?.

From another quarter comes the information that British Columbia has just begun to issue a school journal, this step being the direct outcome of the advice, of Karl Grey, formerly Governor-General of Canada, that the authorities there , should follow tho New Zealand-example. Karl tirey is also trying to persuade the British educational authorities to do likewise.