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UNDER the chairmanship of Sir William Mather, the committee of the Education Section of the Franco-British Exhibition undertook to exhibit to the British public and our French visitors the principles and methods of our national education in all its branches and phases. So formidable a task has not been attempted heretofore in this country, and a very large amount of well-directed labour must have been spent in achieving such a great measure of success. We shall have occasion to point out certain respects in which the results fall short of the ideal; but the more closely one investigates the exhibits, the more one marvels at the thoroughness with which the displav has been organised. The nearest approach from the Wood Lane entrance is through the hall of textile and chemical products, whence we enter the west end of the building (300 ft. X 200 ft.), devoted to British and Irish education. The chief decoration is a series of pleasing frescoes forming a deep frieze along three sides of the hall. These depict in allegorical form the virtues which schools seek to develop, and all have been designed by students of the Royal College of Art. We may mention that all the exhibits—with the exception of statistics and a few other administrative matters—are the work of children, students, and teachers, from the infant school to the University or technical college. The west wall is occupied by colossal maps showing the exact position of every public educational institution in the British Isles, with panels of statistics.
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DANIELL, G. Education at the Franco-British Exhibition . Nature 78, 354–356 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078354a0
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