THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1906.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8274, 30 October 1906, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1906.

Enthusiastic phrenologists foresee the time when the educational authorities will go to the practical phrenologist for aivice and guidance as to the proper training of teachers and the best ourrionlutn for the schools. A congress on the educational value of phrenology, in which authorities on physiology of the brain, craniology, anthropology, and kindred subjeots are invited to take part, is being organised by the British Phrenological Society. This conference, at least so the officials of the society think, and they inolude Dr Alfred JRußsell Wallace, Dr Bernard Hollander, Mr .J. M. Robertson, M.P., and Mr William Jolly, late His Majesty's inspector of schools, will have an important bearing on education. "We phrenologists," explained a leading member of the sooiety recently, "believe that the eduoation question cannot be settled until phrenology is applied to it. We *r« convinced of the educational value of . phrenology when studied on a physiological basis and applied to the selection and training of teachers, as well as to the instruction of pupils." A teaober who is also a phrenologist would, according to the doctrine of the Phrenological Society, be able to tell almost at a glance the best way to appeal to the intelligence of each individual ohild in the class, and the parent who bad mastered the study uf phrenology would be able to decide with little difficulty the profession or trade in

which bia boy would be likely to excel. Unoonsoiously, phrenology ih already being applied to the work of elementary schools, if we ate to ; believe the disciples of Dr Gall, who argue this from the faol> that physical science, practical and theoretical, ia taking a recognised place in the school curriculum. The old idea that phrenology meant feel: ing someone's bumps is vigorously opposed by the modern school of phrenologists, and a steadily increasing portion of the general pub' lie is taking an intelligent Interest in phrenology as the true science of the mental powers.