The Daily News. THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1901. MANUAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 16 May 1901, Page 2

The Daily News. THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1901. MANUAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

i It is to be hoped that every c,ne interested in the educational welfare of 1 Taranaki will attend the meeting tonight to be addressed by the Rev. Edmund 0. Isaac, the organising Inspector of Manual and Technical Training. It is very fortunate that Mr. Isaac is able to spare an eveaing to devote to giving a public address on this very important question. For yeai s past public opinion hag been gradually changing on the question of education, and late'y the , feelfng has been rapidly forming in the direction of widening the scape of our r educational sylUbus so as to embrace inst ruction in the manual and t.echn : c*l branches. While we believe tha literary education imparted in N«w Zealand is equal to that given anywhere, the colony cannot hope to hold its own in the great industrial snd commercial war referred to by us a few days lack, unl ss the band and eye of the nrn' and woaen of the future is we] tr-ured. Tbeie are those annngst us who have long advocated torn'thing bring done in this direction, and \v« have ours.lves ivpeatac'ly alvoca'ed manual and technical a'.tl wsrß(d our readers of the consequences of nrglecting si plain a duty. Un'ortunately, the difficulties have b'en very g ea 1 , r.ot the least b"ing t.haS o f finance. Now; however, Ihe prospect are mu h brighter. The Government, has persistently supported pmp'sa's for the metitution of a workable fc\emp, and last session cime down with d?fin ite ii'eas which Parliament took up coidially af.d p sse 1 the n ce-sar_\ legislation. Very large administrative powtis have been placed in the har.ds • of the Minister of Elucat.i-n, who has afpointcd an Organisingjtlrsprctor and S' crstary in the peison of Mr, Isa-c. Mr, Isaic is now on his first tour o' the^ colony and his mission is first to jexcile interest, and npxi; to fjrmu!a'.< pin ns for defini'e work. Mr. Is ac i himself in earnest, s>nd enthus : astic ' He in his capacity of one of a Royal 1 Ccmm on Ednca ; ion appointed b) 1 the British Government has ha-1 J t'onal opportunities of s tadying t- e , qurstion at Hoxe and on the G nti nent of Europp, ar.d his experi n e- | have been exceedingly interesting. L is not our inteuti n to anticipate hi remarks; but we wish to point ou that under the Aft and Il r guli<iins of t last session provisi n is made for de- \ fraying the full cost of a suitable build ( ing at:d the necessary a or" * we should advisa every one to go to ' Mr. Isiac's meeting to night to learn I the benefits to be gained by taking ad r vantage of these liberal terms on b> e balf of the children of Taranaki, s