PRACTICAL EDUCATION.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10302, 24 July 1907, Page 2

PRACTICAL EDUCATION.

Recent writers on education affirm the necessity for employing only trained teachers in the puiUic schools, and -no -feature of the educational renaissance has received more general approval than that of thoroughly training the teacher "before he i« permitted to teach. In an article m the "Nineteenth Century," however, iMSss Katharine Bathurst, late Inspector of Schools,, advocates the employment in country schools of t local practical tradesmen. "Let the time now wasted in grammar," she '• writes, "be replaced by manual training. Ais teacher (of tailoring) employ the village tailor; and leave off ' Jbothering: albout whether he has a certificate. For bootmaking,. agjain, • take the village cobbler; For cookery; hire ai comimon kitchen for half-a-crown a weefc^ have an Jnoonrenient ' fltove and a scarcity of utensils. Many ,-a squire's or clergyman's wife will gladly allow her cook or kitchen maid ! to teach one afternponf per week" .There are a lot; of jwssibilities; in a scheme ot ithis..Mnd.' :M: yttouM be " decidedly awkward for the customer : whose boots were being "soled while ;you %*#' to hajve to wait till after «»bbler.had^.gone across to the school tp r give .fiis' .lessons, while tine presence of the,square's^ cook- would I probably lurnish excellent -groundß '. for thei "Minister's recent!: pronounoek,'ment thaib.it was inadvisable to hVve pupils of 19 rears of age in "a primary • school. r . , ...