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The Editor Talks The Educational Association of Ontario Ontario is approaching its annual meeting meeting which is held every year in Toronto Toronto during Easter holidays--this year from April 8 to 12--meeting in sections--principals, trustees, . inspectors, inspectors, etc. Many phases of education education and kindred questions will be under under consideration by leading educators and school officials. Addresses that have been given deep thought and long and careful preparation will be delivered and afterwards discussed and criticized. It is always a most interesting interesting and profitable assembly, but considering the importance of the subject subject of education to every man, woman and young person, the reports of daily seldom as extensively in the heat of controversy then and which dominates our minds to-day is that education for culture and efficiency efficiency may very well and effectively be combined. * ■ * * ;* We have given readers of this page recently some practical ideas from a very brilliant address on the curriculum curriculum of schools delivered by President Eliot of Harvard University. This very controversy agitated the scholars and school authorities in the United States a dent Eliot introduced the course it raged hard and furious, too. Writ ers in the magazines and leader writers writers on the big dailies sent forth ar- reported as they well might be in the j dent articles pro and con, and the dedaily dedaily newspapers. The baser sort' of ; bate waxed hot and intensely interest sessions are is politics might well be dropped for one" week and the editorial and news columns columns be given over generally to criticisms criticisms and synopsized reports of the respective sessions. In this way the people of this province would benefit by the deliberations and ideas advanced advanced by prominent thinkers and workers in and out of the high and public schools. for in them all other literature grounded. I want them to know the great books and the great minds of the ages. I want them to know pholo- sophy and history as well as art, poetry and music. I am much more interested in educating them so that >their life may be rich rather than that they: may get rich. (What a sublime thought that is truly.) Above all, I believe in the college which teaches young men that the life of the spirit is the real, joyous, true life, and that vocation is simply to help one to live this best life to the full. Dr. Lynch evidently desires to give r , • i his children the kind of education, that few years ago when Presi-, will enable them to properly, profit- , ...... „ optional abIy and thoroughly enjoy their leis- of studies into Harvard, and ure hours _ that third oï the day when men do not work---but the third that is as important ag the eight hours of labor. This division of time is based on city custom, of course. His kind of education must begin in the home where the right foundation and taste must be formed, but his ideal college is the one that will carry on the good work and build the right kind of superstructure. ing all over that country and spread over here into Canada. Fortunately, at least so we think, President Eliot rather carried the day, and as a result result the colleges began modernizing their course of studies, Greek being made optional in most of them, and greater attention was given-to modern languages, political economy and science. In many,, also, banking, commerce and the subjects practical, every-day studies were-giv- en prominence. Indeed, it was about this time also that the scientific schools began to become lar and the scientific departments of the great universities were thronged Faddists on educational methods will discuss the relative value of subjects subjects of study ; the place of the classics, classics, mathematics and the ever present question of whether education.is for culture or efficiency. This last is, in our opinion, one of the greatest prob- j with zealous students, lems yet unsolved by educationalists, I * * * * although it has been a subject for de- j Some years later, as more of the bate in teachers' conventions and in- J readers of these Talks will remember, stitutes ever since -Herbert Spencer t there came the great emphasis on and Matthew Arnold had their inter- ! technical education, and immense esting controversy. History tells us I schools were built and equipped such sofhething about their contentions, as the Armour Institute, Chicago, the which may be briefly summed up in ; Institute of Technology at Boston, and this paragraph : Mr. Spencer said the others. Several years ago the writer average boy did not have the slight- j was invited by Dr, James L. Hughes, est conception of what chemical process process was going on in the candle while he was reading by it. Mr. Arnold replied, replied, in substance, that he did not care a blank whether his boy knew what was going on in the candle flame or not if the boy only had a mind capable of enjoying to the . utmost utmost the Shakespeare he was reading by the candle. These are a commentator's commentator's words, but they fairly sum up the controversy and the controversialists controversialists did use the candle as a case in point. * * * * Well, to put the question squarely before the members of the Educational Educational Association we should dearly like to hear them discuss on all its bearings bearings this inquiry: Shall the public and high school teachers in Ontario teach the children how to live or how to earn a living? Or, to put it in another another way--Should the education given given to the youth of Canada deal in the main with the problems of their working working hours or with their leisure hours ? Pause for a few moments to get. the import of this question, for our observation observation leads US to conclude that the greatest number of individuals are more seriously perplexed over how to spend their leisure than their active time. To make our question unquestionably unquestionably clear, Shall all education be specialized or all be for general discipline discipline Xh the mind ? These questions have engaged the thought of the best educators since Spencer and Arnold debated them, and if we draw correct conclusion the world to-day sides with Spencer most closely. The controversy controversy these men started stirred up the two great leading English universities of Oxford and Cambridge which insisted insisted that the study of Latin and Greek was the best training not only for a real life but for effective work in the world, while the heads of the Birmingham and London universities claimed that science gave both joy | who we regard as one of Canada's most practical educationalists, to accompany accompany the Toronto Public School teachers on an Easter excursion to The United States' General Tüduca- ■ tion Board has been endowed by Mr. IJ. D. Rockefeller with $35,000,000 and called * s undertaking an experiment in education education with the aim of testing out a thoroughly modern-course of study. A number of boys and girls between very popu- ages 6 and 18 wil1 be matriculated and -tments nf the experiment will begin next Autumn. Autumn. This Board will provide Teachers' College of Columbia University, University, New York, with money necessity necessity to establish and conduct a school for the purpose of constructive work in the reorganization of elementary elementary and secondary education and working and cautious experimentation, experimentation, suggested improvements in the course of study, so that it may be better better adapted to the needs of modern life than is the curriculum now in common use in that country. This plan insures the careful study of every experiment by the Faculty of this college college which includes some of the .-Vi . j , .v , , . ,, . i ablest critics of educational procedure Cleveland to visit the schools of that £ be wor i d K great city, and on that occasion the chief interest of that visit centred in our inspection of the immense tech- nichal school then in full operation. The courses of practical study and manual crafts were a revelation to the Toronto educators. We believe as a The announcement states that Latin and Greek as languages will not be taught in the school. Science, industry industry and domestic arts will be prominent prominent throughout the school and increas- . ,, , : e d attention will be given to music, result of th'8 excursion , the present drawing and ^ Mathematics will splendid technical school m Toronto receive speciaI consideration in the received its inception, in part, at. hope of working out a rational course least Be this as it may, technical of study which connects the study of schools and manual training are here mathematics with its use and which ° S ay *- * * * * j a ^ S0 makes adequate provision for tt .r , . ... ! those who have special ability for this However it be for the cultural idea ; su bj ec t. Organized the boys educated in these practical 1 schools are taught how to earn a liv- ; constant efforts will be made bv mg-they learn how to do things means of i ndividual> class and school themselves, and a an age more m- ! excursions, pictures, - lantern slides, teresting m doing than thinking, such : charts, maps, shop and laboratory a result of education is very popular ! spe cial reading matter and discussions and impressive on men of a practical, to give the pupils sufficient contact turn of mind. But the question of wit h their natural, industrial, social, economic, vocational and domestic eu- recreation, and games will be provided for play and culture vs. efficiency has not been fin ally settled, for there are -educators who deplore the tendency of to-day to teach boys trades or even professions. They want rather to put all the school energies into producing high-minded, widely-read, well-disciplined, cultured vironment so as to derive the basis for their school work from real situations situations aand thus make school work constantly real to them. This outline has- on its face a great deal to recommend the new course of gentlemen--men with «. taste for the ! stu dy and the results'wilfbe^anxious- finest things life has to offer. These j l y anticipated by educationalists the same cultural advocates argue that ; world over, the cultural discipline of the classics, philosophy, literature and mathematics mathematics best fit men in^ the long run even for professional vocations, and this side of the controversy has so ous advocates. How To Win Time. The only way to wjn time is not to ! lose time, says Lloyd George. You still its keen sympathizers and zeal- must not lose time in the Council Chamber; you must not lose time in the Departments which carry out de T Advocates of cultural training ! créés of the Government; you must claim, with much in experience to sup- j not lose time in the field,' in the fac- port their theory, that students so : tory, or the workshop. Whoever tar- educated make the best men even for j ries when he ought to be active--whe- = | work requiring specialization. Men ther it is a statesman, a soldier, an of- and efficiency and that it was all non- i who also employ great numbers of, ficial, a farmer, a worker, a rich man sense to bring up a boy on Greek who ' y° un S me ? in business, strongly em- j with his money--he is simply helping was to spend his life building bridges or financing big business. So varied are the occupations of men in this practical, utilitarian age that the thought which probably was forgotten E. 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OTTAWA fosfcS 7th. 1Ô16. phasize this theory. : For instance, the manager of a large ] industrial concern concern remarked to th"p writer that he greatly preferred to jengage men with classical training rajfcher than with scientific, because in his opinion "they were a higher grade pf mind and their all-round culture made them of .more ! value to him than if they had received received technical training or experience." Another man who prefers cultural training says- "the ; technique of a thing is quickly grasped when the mind is keen, which no one will deny. Educated men, in the most real sense, is what we require iri our business before before boys who have learned the trade." Similar remarks have time and again been advanced. An eminent man remarked remarked recently that . he preferred regular, college graduates for teachers in preference to tho&e who had been trained in teachers' colleges or even Normal Schools. Surely he was standing standing on debatable ground for learning Is by no manner of j means the only qualification required to make a truly successful schoolmaster. Many university university men have turned out to be worthless as heads of schools. * * * * Frederick Lynch, the New York publicist, in a letter on "New Experiments Experiments in Education," whose views we have often quoted, says in effect: For my own part I prefer the culture. I want my children to spend their first 21 years acquainting themselves with the literature, thought, culture, music and art of the worlct The college I shall choose will be the one that provides provides them with the^most cultural atmosphere, atmosphere, and which! lean further in them a love of the good, the ' truly great and the beautiful. They must know the Greek and Latin literatures, the enemy to secure the aid of the" most powerful factor in this war-time. 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