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THE PROGRESS OF EDUCATION.
MR. BALDWIN'S SPEECH TO
TEACHERS.
The Prime Minister and 'Lord Eustace Of all the ways of getting oneself dis Percy (the Fresident of the Board of liked, the most infallible is to go about | Eduéntion) were the guests of the Lon depriving one's fellows of their pet illa-don Teachers' Association at their annual sions. No (writes Ward Muir in a Lon. dinner at the Holborn Restaurant re
cently.. don paper) when I recommend, as an interesting sideline of study. the subject of Popular Fallacies, I make the proviso that it is a branch of knowledge which should not be paraded. When somehoby
(for instance) refers to Columbus's dis covery of North America, it is well to refrain from pointing us that John I Cabot is the true
that claimant to honour. John Cabot discovered ew- foundland in 1407. The first land of the New World discovered by Columbus was one of the Rabana Islands then came Cuba and Haiti (which he called Hispanola); and it was on his third grent voyage, in 1999, that he hit the mainlandnat of North but of South America,
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stand before you to convey to you my own appreciation, as head of the Government. and that of my col leagues, of the work that you and the whole body of teachers are doing for the people of this country. do not propose to take a gloomy and pessimistic view of the state either of our country or of education. I am not going to tell you that in for- eign countries they do these things HONGKONG-HAIPHONG LINE better.
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The wise man ay know all this. He may hold the belief that the Vikings I (whose name has nothing to do with king, by-the-by, but means creek dwellers) crossed the Atlantic long But he before any other Europeans. will only get himself hated as a prig it he insists on dethroning Columbus.
Tradition is stronger than history, Alfred probably never burnt the cakes
The Colossus of But does it matter? Rhodes was not planted at the entranos to the harbour, it was not a bene statue, and ships never passed
country has indeed been remarkable. baring regard to the fact that we hare only occupied ourselves serious-! ly with this problem for two gene! rations
know that there are far too many in sanitary schools, but the average health of the children is, and has been, steadily improving. There has never been so much organized effort in this country on behalf of child welfare as there is to-day. We live in an age when the preservation of such civilization as Thi have already succeeded in astaining to, can only be maintained" by spread and continuance of the edu cation of the people.
It
the
But the conception is fine. Julius Caesar was not an Emperor of Rouse. He
the war of reason against the passion was a general, a consul, and a dictator. has never been more urgent to wage: which may be stimulated by mob but never Emperor." Cleopatra was not
psychology. a Greck dynasty in Egypt. Egyptian, but the last of the Ptolemys thello ren not a black Moor, for ove
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St. Augustine d not introduce St. Alban Christianity into England.
had suffered martyrdom on account of the Christain frith more than two centuries before St. Augustine landed. Dick Turpin did not ride from London to York in 20 hours. This fent was performed by another highwayman; and in any case Black Bess, the horse, was an invention of Harrison Ainsworth.
But though the Press pours forth histories, encyclopaedias, and every sort of work of reference, in which the facts about these things can be verified, the mistakes about them persist; far though Truth is great and will prevail, it is rather slow about it, and meanwhile, as Martin Tupper remarked, Error is a hardy plans,
PIRICAL GEOTATIONS. Particularly is it hardy in relation to Ton-authentis quotations from the best- known and most-read book in our com munity-the Bible. "Spare the rod and Spoil the child, Fourie wind to the oil on troubled water, God tempers shorn lamb," and "In the midst of life
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mean to go un, in conjunction with Lord Eustace Percy and all of you, to try to make things better... said at the Albert Hall some months ago that wished to se secondary and university education brought within the reach of childred fitted to take advantage of them. I stand by that. I hope before we reach the middle of this century that the country will have dealt effectively with that problem of the children be tween the ages of 19 and 18."
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in love with their work and properly equipped for it. That is why I wel come the improvement in the pay-of the whole profession in recent years. is not for you to undertake the poli- tical education of the children, but it is for you to see that, if they have to hear of these things, they hear, both sides, and that they hear them dispassionately, because you Root prostitute your position to Bectarian ends.
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and never did come, from Jerusalem? Chias Buikling, 1st Floor - Tel. 0.431 & 435 The misunderstanding is due to OUT iD- corrigible habit of misprocouncing foreign languages, for the came corruption of the Italian girasole (sun- flower) of which the Jerusalem artichoke is a species, Jordan almonds, similarly, have nothing to do with the River Jordan. Their name is merely another awful bloom" in the way of anglicis ing from a strange tongue, Jordan?" originated in the French jardin, garden, and indicated the cultivated almond as opposed to the small fruit of the wild almond.
French beats are not French. They come from South America. Rosewood is not the wood of the rose tren. Its name is due to the faint smell of roses in certain Brazilian timber when first gut, The tuberose has nothing to do either with tubes or roses; its botnineal name is Rolyanthus tuberosa, And this has caused the misconception.
Turkey.
PHILOLOGICAL TRAPS.
But, not being a nation of philologists, we shall go on blundering about various elementary facts in natural science, just as we blunder about notorious episodes and characters in history. That succulent bird, the turkey, for example, was not originally imported into this country from To London and Bristol the turkeys were brought by traders who dealt chiefly with the Near East, and hence were called Turkey merchants, but nctually the birds had come from India. (Their name on French menus in dinda and dindon: "Le, poule Inde) Even so, the turkey seems to have been in- troduced into South-west India by the Portuguese It is "really a native of America,
Another bird, the plover, has recently come out in its true colours for many of us, and we no longer veperate it as the producer of plovers' eggs. Last spring's agitation against the gormandising these delicacies was aimed at the pre- servation of the lapwing For it is the Japwing (or peewit) which lays "plovers' eggs, and is being exterminated by cur epicurean appetite. Analogous to this is the case of the osprey-which is a bird of no value to the dealer. Osprey feathers do not come from ospreys, but from the egret, & species of heron,
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