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CLASSICS, IN EDUCATION.
“GREET EASIER THAN LATIN
ls Greek easier to learn than Latin? Dr. Alington, Headmaster of Elan, thinks that it is. Ho told the Headmasters' Conference at Eton that not only is it easier but it is also a much more suit- "able medium for educating a
"stupid" boy.
The statement was made during] a discussion that followed. the reading of -u paper on "Thei Classics In Education," by the Provost of Eton (Dr. M. R. James). In this paper the Provost said that his brief did not assert that no- body culd claim to be a gentle- nian without classics, or that classics formed the best avenue to posts of high emoluments, But It did claim that the classics were the zeen bods of modern culture and thought. The element of beauty was hardly in the purview of the exact science. To substract the classics from the education el a boy and imagine that the get- eral love of culture would re- main unimpaired was equivalent. to subtracting Christian beliefs from the general beliefs of the community, and imagining that the community would continue practice Christianity,
to
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Range of Literature. .It was after this that Alington made his speech. "I do not think," he said, "that any of us who believe in classies, can be in the least satisfied with the result of our efforts." He added that one of the reasons for this was the stupid boy. They all said that if the stupid boy read be 'only one: language it must Latin.
"I think it is incontestable," he continued, "that Greek is not only a better but an easier language. The range of literature which a stupid boy can appreciate, is much wider in Greek than in Latin. It is the reward of the ripe scholar to be able to appreciate Virgil.
"There are only some passages in it, and those not the best, that make appeal to the non-literary hoy. But it is perfectly possible to start a boy with Greek. Let him learn Greek compulsorily for two years, and at the end of that period he will usually be able to rend anme Homer, Herodotua, and Aristophanes."
Mr. "Henderson Alleyn's School), announcing himself a believer in the classics, declared that the ancient Greeks were the best educated people the world had ever, known.. "Now how did that come about, he asked, "for they had no ancient agunges,"
This discussion was followed by a motion supported by Mr. H. N. P. Sloman Tonbridge) and Mr. W. Hamilton Fyfe (Christ's Hospital) regretting that no systematised attempt was made to give boys who studied an ancient language some appreciation of ancient art.
Teaching In French.
A long discussion took place earlier in the day on the teaching of French. There was a motion in the name of Mr. G. A. Riding (Warwick) and Mr. H. Nicholson (Taunton) orging, on examining bodies the immediate adopton of the recommendations of the report of the Committee on the position of French in the School Certi eate Examination.
It appeared that this committer had suggested that the oral ex- amination, which is now optional in the case of some examining bodies, should be made pulsory. It also suggested that the value of the oral examination #hould be 25 per cent, of the total marks.
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Mr. Riding declared, that the present examination: Was not. guiding the teaching of French along its best lines. The papers were in advance of the standard of French that could reasonably be expected, and they tested rather the extent than the solidity of achievement. It would be wiser to demand smaller amount of Kround to be covered and to raise the standard of a pass from the present 33 per cent, to 50 per cent.
The setting for translation of short disconnected sentences which had been deprecated by previous investigators should be discontinued, for the effect on the school work of that type of ques- | tion was bad. The candidate re- garded the questions as traps.
That there is a general ten- dency to under-estimate the difficulty of French was the opinion of Mr. Nicholson. He stoutly denied that French was a "soft option.".
This motion was challenged by Mr. H. Grose Hodge (Bedford). Was not the important thing. he asked, to teach the boy to write French fairly, accurately. If the boy learned, the grammer and 'syntax and went abrand he would learn more in three months than they could touch him in three years.
The conference, at the suggės- tion of Dr. Norwood (Harrow), decided that the recommendations of the committee should have "very careful consideration" In- stead of demanding "immediate adoption.".
JANUARY 25, 1930.
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