INFERIOR EDUCATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 837, 8 June 1910, Page 5

INFERIOR EDUCATION.

WHERE BRITAIN FAILS, Uy Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright London, June 6. Mr. J. Kniusay Macdonald, Labour M.P. for Leicester and Secretary of the Parliamentary Labour party, in a speech at Whitefiolds Tabernacle (the Rev. Silvester Home's Congregational Church in Tottenham Court Road) dealt with the question of Anglo-German competition. lie said that Germany was ahead of England, because German brains ' were trained in scientific subjects instead of in biographies of Bismarck and von Moltke. People should read German philosophers aud poets to discover the germs of German unity and greatness. German workmen asked him to tell Englishmen that they were fighting those elements in Germany which sought for war. [In a recent address to business men, -Professor W. A. Osborne (Professor of Physiology in the University of. Melbourne) spoko in unsparing terms of the contemptible position that England occupied, with relation to Germany and the United States, in her attitude of indifference towards science and higher education. He attributed the menaco of Germany's growing rivalry to the work done !in German laboratories, and ironically pointed to the contrast between the concern felt in Englund victories gained bv visiting Australian cricketers or New Zealand footballers, and the indifference shown when Germany, by purely intellectural efforts in her laboratories, robbed England of her Indian indigo trade. The professor said he was far more afraid of German organic chemistry than of her canals or Dreadnoughts. Professor Osborne obtained a degree at tho University of Tubingen, the German town where they make physical and surgical instruments aud chemical apparatus—lines in which Germany has made great inroads into British trade.]