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{ENGLISH EDUCATION BILL.

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In her recently published remi niscences, ra. Humphry Ward remarks that the measures of educational reconstruction, chief among them the Fisher Education Aot of August, are largely em- bodiments of the iteas of Matthew Arnold (mys the New York Evening Post.) Neither family pride nor the tendency to! magnify the influence of great figures detracts very much from this statement. Matthew Arnold was from 1851 to 1686, or to within two years of his death, in- spector of schools. He made inquiries for successive educat- jonal commission; his writings on education extend through his essays and criticismus; he had a

ara in the Education Acts of 1870, and 1876, which established England's system of board schools and compulsar ede- cation; and in educational eontro- versies within and without Parlia- ment since he had been much quoted.

The Royal Com mission's report

on secondary education in 1895.

his friend and fellow-sincator Sir Joshua Fitch said, "proceeds to a large extent on lines which he was the first to trace, and recum- mends a policy which would have gone far to realise his hopes." Few Englishmen did more to call attention to the crying faults of

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wretched middle-class education," as he called it. But Arold's criticism was construct ire as well as destructive, smil dealt with hard realities as well as with abstract principle.

The new Education Bill carries. onward au ides which Arnold con- sistently emphasized-the idea that Britian, which had always shown an insular dread of state organisation, must have recourse tit. In the report he was asked to ruskeupon French and German elucation. Arnold was able to argue powerfuly for state inter- ference. We gladly recall that lie turned rather to France than Gennany. "The power of France in Europe," he wrote, is at this day mainly owing to the completeness with which she has organised democratic institu tis." Of the >>sualprivate school he was contemptuous: "I have this year [1880] been read- ing David Copperfield' for the first time: Mr. Creakle's school at Blackheath is the type of our mid- die-class schools, and our niddle class is satisfied that it should be So. Equally hearty washis dislike for endowed schools which herded into one enclosure children of a

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or commercial travellers as likely | to bring up children not only at home, but at school too, in a kind of odor of licensed victualism or bagmanism." The same book contains his applause of the Con- tinental idea that it is the engrossed in hunting; but they business of the heads and repre-did show mettle at last in getting sentatives of a nation by virtue their degrees "after three weeks of their superior means, power, of a famous evark for fast men, and information, to direct ela-four nights without going to bed,

A naval officer just invalided cational policies. The new bill and an incredible consumption of home after two years' service in State wet towels, strong, cigars, and the Mediterranean relates that in carries comprehensive

As for the action to an extreme quite bold brandy and water."

spite of several sharp skirmishes enough to suit Arnold,"

Lycurgus House Academy with Austrian destroyers and graduate aptly characterised its submarines, he sustained no per

headmaster:

WHISKY" IS ITALT.

In writing on education above

sonal damage until, in a weak the elementary years, Arnold laid

Original roan, Silverputu? moment, he took a glass of great emphasis on the need for

Fice mind! Fine system! None" whisky" and soda in a cafe at "good secondary schools, and for

a broader national equipment of of your antiquated rubbish-all one of the Italian naval ports. universities. He hoped for a dozen practical work latest discoveries This proved more potent than the good provincial universities-in science-mind constantly kept Austrian shells, for it sent him universities in the Continental excited-lots of interesting ex-back to Blighty as an invalid. He periments-lights of all colours tells that owing to the demand sense, democratic and encourag-zz! fizz! bang! bang! That's for civilised drinks" which has ing research; these have come in what I call forming a man. arisen since our troops went to the last two decades. His essay on "A French Eton" described two conform to the demands stated chants have found that they can Beneath outward charges that Italy, enterprising local mer French secondary institutions which he believed hold many by Arnold there is little difficulty make "Scotch themselves, the lessons for England: the lycee at in tracing changes in the spirit most popular recipe being ap Toulouse, and a private school at A little to contemptuous of the glue, dragon's blood, and colour- of British education due to him.parently one of wood alcohol, Soreze. Of what secondary ordinary stodgy English burgher, ing matter to taste. This mix- schools England had fifty years ago he had no high opinion. The he really helped awake him in ture looks all right in a bottle sixth and seventh parts of many ways, and in one way bearing a well-known label, but "Friendship's

on better the effects are liable to be dis Garland"

through insistence

His great astrous to the ordinary stomach. bitingly satirical. Did Blank and ideals in teaching.

Our friend, however, has no Dasli leara much at Eton and the demand was for "formative Charterhouse? Well, Arnald re- studies, to make the mind and grievance against the Italians, plies, it is hard to judge, for when the character.

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Parsuits based whose kindness and hospitality he knew them at Oxford they were upon letters, poetry, and religion, to our men are boundless.

that would moralise a tan, would cause a rise in his whole charac ter of what might be termed his standard of life-thees were "formative" stadies: Sound judgment will not let go of these, no matter what changes come.

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