OVER-EDUCATION IN ENGLAND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 737, 18 May 1887, Page 3

OVER-EDUCATION IN ENGLAND.

The London .Weekly Times has the following article in it :—": — " Are we really — not over-educating — but over-cramming our children? The French medical men are seriously debating the question, which has already attracted much attention in this -country and in Germany. At the last meeting of ' the French Academy of Medicine, M. Gustave Lagneau stated that I while out of ,1000 young men, gathered together' indiscriminately, ' '540 passed as physical] v fit ..for the. army and 460 were rejected, out of 1000 who had taken -their B.A. degree 575 were rejected, while only 425 were passed. M. Dnjardm-Beaaaietz is equally pronounced concerning the' damage done .by over-pressure to the health ef gicla, and the ' Academy finally appointed a Committee to deal wjth ,the whole subject. One savant declared that, while public" opinion is shortening the working hours, of men and women through- ; out the world,, a different polioy prevails in the schools, and that the burdens of the: children are being yearly added to. Sooner or later the public will have to- grasp the difference between a well-educated and a. merely wll-inforw-d boy or girl. We 3d want onr children ■ well educated, ' with' their faculties well trained for the acquisition, in later life, ot the special knowledge that is to become useful to them; we do not want them mere receptacles of fact*, and figures, and dates, in the acquisition- of which so much precious time' and health is. , practically wasted." , . y •■ >••

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