TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Evening Star, Issue 7308, 5 September 1887, Page 3

TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

At Milton on Friday evening Sir George Grey addressed some 300 of the school children, and in the course of his remarks contrasted the method of teaching here with the instruction given to the Hottentots, Kaffirs, and Zulus. On Saturday morning he visited the technical school in connection with the Milton High School, and was delighted with what he saw. Carpentering woik was done, and from the experiments shown in agricultural chemistry, some of the lads proved themselves good practical chemists.

Sir George this afternoon inspected the technical classes in connection with the George street School. After visiting tho class-rooms in company with Mr Jago and other members of Committee he inspected the woodwork class, where sixteen boys, under Mr MThee, are receiving instruction in carpentry. Sir George, after looking over the work, addressed the lads, dwelling on tho immense importance of the practical work of the education he had seen in that room, and on a larger scale in the District High School at Milton last week. Ho had been informed recently by Lord Elphinstone that several of the English aristocracy recognised that immense social changes were likely to take place in the old world, and they were having their sons taught trades. _ He hoped when he visited the school again twelve months hence to find that the boys had greatly profited by Mr M'Phee’s instruction, and that they would exert themselves to the utmost to become efficient tradesmen. For himself ho could safely say that he would have been very glad if such opportunities had existed in his youth. He concluded by wishing Mr M'Nicoll and his staff every success, aid would be glad to hear that the technical would in the future become one of the most important parts of the school curriculum.