Physical
science will have its great divisions, of physical geography,
with geology and astronomy; physics; chemistry and biology;
represented not merely by professors and their lectures, but by
laboratories in which the students, under guidance of
demonstrators, will work out facts for themselves and come into
that direct contact with reality which constitutes the
fundamental distinction of scientific education. Mathematics will
soar into its highest regions; while the high peaks of philosophy
may be scaled by those whose aptitude for abstract thought has
been awakened by elementary logic. Finally, schools of pictorial
and plastic art, of architecture, and of music will offer a
thorough discipline in the principles and practice of art to
those in whom lies nascent the rare faculty of aesthetic
representation, or the still rarer powers of creative genius."
Early in the seventies the problems connected with what is called
technical education became prominent in the minds of the most
far-seeing of this nation. It became plain that England was not
advancing with the same strides as some other nations in arts and
manufactures, and the most obvious difference between England and the
rivals whose advance was causing anxiety lay in her deficiency in
education.
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