Medical Congress.
U (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, February 6. At the Medical Congress to-day Dr Springtborpe (Melbourne) delivered his presidental address in the health section by reading a paper on the battle of life from a physician's point of view. Dr Stenhouse, in the same section, read a paper on educational problems, in which ho contended that duration in school should not commence before seven years of age. He also contended that the kindergarten system, which sought to put infants under restraint and discipline from two years and afterwards. Dr Sprinthorpe, speaking generally, regarded the sending of the child to the school before the age of six or seven as the lesser of two evils ; as to the education of females, perhaps it was true that a woman's brain was less than a man's, but there was reason of this in the cramming process of the past. High pressure and continual overstrain seemed to him to be the main evils of our modern system of education.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 184, 7 February 1896, Page 2
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