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THE annual Conference of Educational Associations just concluded at the University of London was a strenuous business spread over eight days. The inaugural address by Mr. James Bryce contained a plea that the strongest and finest minds should be pushed forward. In reference to this key to national success, it was noted that the tide runs now towards scientific studies just as fifty years ago it ran towards humanistic studies, and it was pertinently asked: What subjects and what sort of teaching of those subjects, are best calculated to train men to think, to enable the mind to see facts as they are, to analyse them, to draw just conclusions from them, to rise above prejudices, to play freely round the phenomena of life? Are mathematics and physics or chemistry sufficient for this purpose? The note of caution here applied in one direction was also sounded in connection with the additional expenditure of public money on education, with a single exception, that concerning the payment of higher salaries to the teachers.
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Educational Conferences . Nature 92, 567 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092567a0
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