OF CHINESE VALUE.
fy-—— MEMORISED MINUTIAE OF EXAMINATION FETISH. By Telceraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. 1 October 2, 10.40 p.m.) Lcntion, October 2. At the opening of the Medical Schools Sir William Osier (Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University), addressing tho students at St. George's Hospital, vigorously attacked the examination system under which some of the best material failed simply through the curriculum. Medicine, ho declared, could bo taught without systematic lectures. Tlicy should burn the anatomical fetish. Tho speaker instanced •Cunningham's Anatomy"—it was barbaric cruelty to burden the mind with minutiae which could only bo of Chinese value as a titanio test of memory. Whero possible, tho evidence of original work should be substituted for examination.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1871, 3 October 1913, Page 7
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116OF CHINESE VALUE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1871, 3 October 1913, Page 7
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