EDUCATION CONFERENCE
COLONIES' INTELLECTUAL
FUTURE.
DEBATE ON AGRICULTURAL
EDUCATION.
By Telegraph.—Pies*' Association.—Copyright. ; (Beceived May 23, 1055 p.m.)
'•■';'''■■ London, May 28. The sittings of the Imperial Education Conference -were continued yesterday, Mr. S. L. Butcher, member of the House of Commons for Cambridge University, presiding. The .President said 'it had 5 long been recognised that the colonies were the greatexperimentallaboratories of the Empire in social and political matters. He believed .they would have the " same intellectual future as the Greek colonies, which were the workshops of?the Hellenic mind, recreating the material sent from the Mother State, and sending it back renewed and revivified. . Sir Horace Phmkett opened a discussion on the methods of agricultural education.
Mr. John West and Mr. Tate (Victorians) delivered speeches, 'in which they described Australia's experience in agricultural education. Sir. Philip Magnus said the Imperialisation of a system of technical education was the prime essential. It would be possible to do much by the interchange of students and the publication of such reports as. the New South Wales Education Department had recently issued.
■; Mr. West gave. a vigorous account of the influence of technical training on the farmers in the building up of Australia's butter industry. The English farmers were suffering from a lack of similar opportunities. The , cure of the cushion ; scale disease in the orangeries of California by- the introduction of the South Australian Vedali cardinalis showed the possibilities of interImperial diffusion of technical knowledge. Mr. Tate gave a detailed account of Victoria's co-ordinated scheme of agricultural education. The Australian experience, he said, had proved that a sound general education 0 equal to the standard in the cities must precede technical instruction, His references to _. < agricultural .-f high schools aroused general interest..'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13450, 29 May 1907, Page 7
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