Professor Huxley on Technical

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 250, 28 March 1888, Page 9

Professor Huxley on Technical

I'noi i>s(ir Hs. .[.,,> addiewng an infinentinlly attended Twn « meeting in Manchester on the 29 f 'i November, to consider the question of technical education, slid the subject \\a-> one ot primary importance and vital significance to the welfare of the country. The obiocti at. which they should aim was the development- of the industrial products ity of the counti'y to its uttermost limits consistent \vi + h social welfare. He belieunl they should itrive to improve the present »ystem of primary education in such a manner a.s woaid make it a proper preparation for that particular business in life which might be contemplated. The present primary education v.-as too bookish, too little practical, and jjave no training to those particular iicukiep of observation, accuracy, and dealing with things, rather than with worcK which weie of the utmost importance to indusbiial life. The teaching of drawing was of the first necessity, and in Ins mind the child who had been taught to make an accurate ele\ation, plan and section of a pint pot had icceived a> :«o?i< \aluable training of eye and hand. He also advised the development ol objee'. lesson teaching, which was- most necos^aty to the education of children. The man, however, did not live yet who could diaw up a final scheme ol technical education.