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AMONG the Acts which will make memorable the closing session of the present Parliament none will be held of more momentous import than the Education Act of 1918, limited in its scope to England and Wales; or the scarcely less important measure dealing with Scottish education, which passed its third reading in the House of Commons on October 17. Both measures will have a potent effect on the future education of the two kingdoms, and be fruitful of great results for the educational and physical well-being of the children of the nation. It is therefore to be regretted that Prof. Robert Wallace, professor of agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, should have thought it well to occupy the attention of his students, on the occasion of the opening of the University session on October 8, with a denunciation of the policy of both measures, and that he has now-issued and circulated the lecture as a pamphlet (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, price 6d.) to Members of Parliament and the Press. Prof. Wallace is apparently persuaded that children between the ages of eight and fourteen should, for their practical instruction, participate actively in agricultural and manufacturing industry on the ground that 85 per cent, of the children of the nation must earn their living by hand-labour, and he would therefore introduce them at a tender and immature age into close intimacy with adults in field, factory, and workshop.
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Education and Life . Nature 102, 195–196 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102195a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/102195a0