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SIR PHILIP MAGNUS discoursed on methods of technical instruction on February 14, at the College of Preceptors. In the course of his address he pointed out that our intermediate schools were generally described as in a state of chaos, and it could scarcely be expected that so nebulous a system would be largely influenced by the definite movement in favour of technical education. As a fact, they had been much less affected than the institutions above and below them, and probably in consequence of the recognised absence of organisation. It might be that the Royal Commission about to be appointed would introduce order into this chaos, and that when each school knew exactly its position in the school hierarchy—its relation to the schools above and below it, and the special and particular purpose it was required to serve—our intermediate schools, both first and second grade, would become more efficient than they now were in preparing the way for that technical education which, in every branch of professional and commercial life, was being recognised as indispensable.
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On Preparing the Way for Technical Instruction. Nature 49, 400–401 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/049400a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/049400a0