TENDENCY OF MODERN EDUCATION.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 19, Issue 21, 17 March 1908, Page 2

TENDENCY OF MODERN EDUCATION.

The most significant tendency which an observer of educational progress sees to-day is that of specilization. The time is fast approaching when it will be recognised that merely a general education, whether on classical or scientific, lines, is not alone a suitable preparation for life. Not that culture is less desirable than formerly, rather it is more desirable, but above this general substructure must be placed a technical education which will give that special application to some calling which the coming age will demand. Colleges which devote their attention • solely to general cultural training will become of less importance. The institutions now known by the various titles of technical colleges, institutes of technology, and polytechnic institutes, are the colleges of the twentieth century which will do most for their students, which willl be in closest touch with the needs Qf covilisation, which will provide at once the most cultural, the most rational, and the most scientific instruction. These institutions, by whatsoever name designated, will be the important colleges of the future, because they will give that perfect unity of thought and action, that harmony of theory and practice, which the needs ol the future demand.