Education at the British Association

Abstract

AMONG the “growing points” mentioned by Prof. M. E. Sadler in his address were the keenness of intelligent workmen to make the elementary schools better, the demand by adult workers for an education touched by imagination, humanity, and civic idealism, the encouragement of education by employers of labour, educational experiments carefully planned and systematically watched (e.g. in practical courses of study and corporal training in higher elementary schools for ages twelve to fifteen, and in the actual results of postponing the beginning of Latin until twelve years of age), and the need for continuation schools to check the drift into the physical and intellectual disorder of the unemployed. A full report of Prof. Sadler's address appears in the School world for September.