A GREAT EDUCATIONIST.

Otago Witness, Issue 3674, 12 August 1924, Page 56

A GREAT EDUCATIONIST.

PROFESSOR JOHN ADAMS. VISIT TO DUNEDIN. An event of unusual interest to the large section of this community intimately concerned with education in one or other of its aspects is the approaching visit of Professor John Adams. Professor Adams, who holds the degrees of M.A., B.Sc., and LL.D., is perhaps best known to the public as Professor of Education in the University of London. He is undoubtedly one of the foremost educationists in the British Empire, and in addition he is a very fine teachers in Aberdeen, rector of the similar college in Glasgow, and lecturer in education at Glasgow University, and president he encouraged anyone under him to develop any special gift he might possess of his genuine goodness, of his gentlem.anliness, and of his delightful gift of humour. Reports from northern centres where Dr Adams has just been lecturing indicate that his personality -continues to make the same happy and abiding impressions. He had a series of eminently successful meetings in Auckland, and the audiences at his lectures on educational topics were enthusiastically appreciative. After all seats had been occupied numbers willingly stood. Unfortunately, Professor Adams’s visit to Dunedin is to be only of very brief duration. He will arrive here on the evening of Saturday, August 23, and leave again on the following Tuesday morning. A small committee of educational experts with Mr J. A. Moore, of tile Training College at their head, has been arranging a busy programme for him. On Saturday evening after his arrival he will give a public lecture in Burns* Hall on “Tendencies in Modern Education.” On Sunday he will visit Knox College, and may perhaps address an afternoon gathering in First French scholar, a psychologist,' and a during his career are those of rector of the Free Church Training College for literary critic of r-are discernment. Among of the Educational Institute of Scotland. He is the author of not a few widelycirculated books, including one on “Herbartian Psychology,” “The Evolution of Educational Theory,” a “Students’ Guide,” ‘The New Teaching.” and a “Primer on Sunday School Teaching.” More than one of Dr Adams’s old pupils nro now holding responsible positions in Dunedin, and the eager enthusiasm with which they speak cf him'- is eloquent testimony of his genius for his life's chosen work of education. They speak of the tact and oatience and insight with which the prominent positions he had occupied Church. On Monday lie will speak at the Training College in the morning, and in the evening will give liis second public lecture, again in the Burns I Tall, on the subject of “Education and the New Psychology.”