EDUCATION WASTE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13996, 3 September 1909, Page 3

EDUCATION WASTE.

At the He'i Ith Congress at Leeds University, on July 19th, at which were discussed municipal subjects, sanitai;y .questions, studies in child life, and engineering architecture, and bacteriology. Speaking in the section dealing with the bringing up of children, Sir James Crichton-Browuc, who presided, said that we were apt to invert things in this country. Me had always held that nutrition and food should conic before education, and that we had squandered millions of money by our present method of putting education into bodies that were nut lit to receive it. (Hear, 'hear.) . Dr William, Hall (Leeds), alluding to open-air scli'oolsj said lie admired the open-air system, but he objected very much to children's heads and feet be-. ,ing exposed to-the cold. "A pair of clogs is as beneficial as a good dinner," remarked the doctor. "1 agree with the utility 'of living in the open-air, but it must be accompanied by an abundanco of food and 'warmth of the. extremities." : lii the discussion which followed Di Marsden (Birkenhead) said-he disagreed with a lot of the absurd extravagance forded upon them by the Hoard oji Education. It was lajnentable to ; e children in an absolutely filthy condi- v tion'* being taught Tennyson and Shakespeare instead of being i.istrucUd as to how to keep-themselves clean... Sir Charles Cameron (l)ublin) did not tliiiik it was desirable to have open air schools in all weather in Ins country,. where*there were about -0U lain} days in the year. (Laughter) —" Another injustice to Ireland ' (hiugliter—was that there was • .110 medical inspection nr Irish elemental y schools, and he f trusted that would l>6 remedied. (Hear, hear.) ; ■ Sir J Crirliton-Brow lie characterised as deplorable the neglect "t domestic duties. I'casants 111 many pal ts of Scotland wllo formerly made own jam nojv bought it. As to tlie open-airsystem, he, remarked that education was needed; on the point. He was once at a congress to consider this matter, and a.Bishop who spoke said: ".You go to bed in.perfect health and lind an the morning that you have., run ;i terrible risk, an. unthulty housemaid having left your bedroom windqw i open." ■ (Laughter.) : ■ . '■ , _ t.l 111 the.afternoon Leeds. University conferred honorary degrees on three i of the chief, members.. t.r the congress. Colonel Thomas Walter Harding (Pre-sident-of'the-congress) was the-recipi-ent of the degree, of Doctor Of Law, and' tlio degree-of Doctor of Science j was bestowed: upon- Sir. Jaines Crichton- i Browne • and Major llonald Hobs, the ] authority oiiMiialanaUnid yellow , lever. ( Sir James" Cricliton-BJ'ownc, in le- < plying, said in the application of science to sanitation there was room lor encouragement and lio|)e. As a consequence the deatli rate had tallon,. and was, still theie, had been s u enormous reduction, jn the. .iiioitah »y from small-pox, consumption and tuberculosis. * Other diseases had been brought under control, and they Impedultimately that the serpent cancer would be uncoiled and. chained lor a thousand yeai s.- (Cheers.)