IMPERIAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 29 May 1907, Page 3

IMPERIAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE

TECHNICAL EDUCATION DISCUSSED Received 2S(h, 10.5.1 p.m. I Loudon, May 23. Mr. S. L. Butcher, member of flie House of Commons for Cambridge University, presiding at the Education Conference, said it had long been recognised that the colonies were the great rsperi- j menial laboratories of the Empire in ieial and political mailers, and believed they would have the same intellectual future as the Creek colonies which were

the work-hops of the Hellenic mind, recreating the material sent from the Mother State, and sending it back renewed and revived. Sir Horace I'b.inkett opened a disc, sion en tha methods of affrieultur.il education. The Victorian delegates delivered sisvche;. which largely' ranged aruun-.l

Sir Philip .Magnus said the Imocrialisatioii of the :.ystein of technical education was a prime e-sential. It was possible to do niii.-h by an interchange of students, and-die publication of "such reports as \.., v South Wales recent I v issued.

Mr. V, est gave a vigorous account of the inline-: ... of technical training to fanners in building up the Australian butter industry. English farmers, he Mid

were suffering from lack of similar opportunity. The cure of cotton cushion and strale disease in the orangeries at California by the introduction of the South Australian "vedali eardinalis" showed the possibilities of inler-Tm-perial diffusion of teehnie.il knowledge. Mr. Tate detailed an account of Victoria's co-ordinated scheme of agricultural education. Australian experience

proved that a sound general education equal to the standard of cities must precede technical. Reference to agricultural high schools aroused general interest.