PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 6964, 18 January 1888, Page 6

PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Professor Huxley, addressing an influentially attended town's meeting in Manchester on the 29th November, to consider the question of technical education, said the subject was one of primary importance and vital significance to the welfare of the country. The object at which they should aim was the development of the industrial productivity of the country to its uttermost limits ccnsistent with social welfare. He believed they should strive to improve the present system of primary education in such a manner as would make it a proper preparation for that particular business in life which might be contemplated. The present primary education was too bookish, too little practical, andgave no training to those particular faculties of observation, accuracy, and dealing with things, rather than with words, which were of the utmost importance to industrial life. The teaching of drawing was of the first necessity, and in his mind the child who had been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot had received a most valuable training of eye and haud. He also advised the development of object lesson teaching, whichwas most necessary to the education of children. The man, however, did not live yet who could draw up a final scheme of technical education.