EDUCATION CONFERENCE.
TO BE PERPETUATED. VALUE Or MODEBN H3STOICS". LONDON, June 3. The Education Conference on Saturday discussed the place that history and geography should! occupy in the scheme of education.
Mr H. A. L. Fisher. Fello-w and Tutor of New College, Oxford, advised that the colonial universities should study modern European history. He believed the Australian and Canadian newspapers revealed a great ignorance of the condition of European politics. The colonial universities would be able to correct such
ignorance. The Government notified a decision to arrange for an official education conference in 1911 as the first of a regular series. [Mr H. A. L. Fisher is one of the leading authorities in mediaeval and modern history in the university of Oxford. His books "include "The Mediaeval Empire (1898) : '"Studies in Napoleonic Statesmanship" (1903) ; and "A Political History of England" (1906) ; ana Jie nas been a frequent contributor to the historic, economic and general reviews.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 132, 4 June 1907, Page 5
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