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THE recent opening of the City and Guilds of London Institute by the Prince of Wales, and the simultaneous issue of a special catalogue of the educational exhibits at the Health Exhibition, which are for the most part housed in that Institute, has been themeans of drawing; much public attention to this most interesting and valuable collection, and renders some account of it opportune. It is probably not too much to say that no such elaborate and extensive collection of educational appliances, methods, and results, has ever been brought together before, notwithstanding the fact that, the primary object of the whole Exhibition being to elucidate the conditions of health, it was considered expedient to attach to the principal display mainly such objects and appliances as had a special relation to healthful school life. This limitation, however, has been interpreted somewhat liberally, and the result is a collection in which can be studied and compared the educational systems in primary, general, and technical education as practised in the British Islands, France, and Belgium, and to a less extent in Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, and Canada. It is. earnestly to be hoped that such an opportunity for comparing their, own systems, practice, and results with those of others, whether English or foreign, will not be allowed to pass by our schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, as. well as by members of School Boards, and indeed by all interested in this vast subject. We hear with pleasure that it is intended to organise visits there by parties of London masters and mistresses, and we hope that arrangements will be made enabling provincial educationalists to avail themselves of the advantages offered by this temporary display at South Kensington, which will not be. prolonged beyond the middle of October.
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CARPENTER, W. Primary Education at The Health Exhibition . Nature 30, 218–220 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030218a0
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