Lord Shaw of Dunfermline recent address at the opening of " new school began with words urging the importance of the prime elements of education—the old-fashioned three R's, "Young Scotland" summarizes the learned Judge's address with the follow. ing remarks:—" If secondary and Usiversity education were to produce their best results, they must be built poo second foundation of elementary education worthy of the enperstractare that was to be built upon Bot words have a wider application than to those who intend to farther their education at the secondary school and the University. They are laden with instruction and warning every young Scuteman and Scote woman la the ranks of industry and of commerce, as surely as to the young men and women of our country who are destined for professional life. There 4 sufficient time up to the age of fourteen for a boy ordinary capacity become proficient in reading, writing, and arithmetic. And yet anyone who has to do with young men and women io Bible classes or otherwise knows that only a small percent ina way to sppr Ta this cana home as a parallel inflaenog with what of the school in edacatio®&. He told how on one occasion Sir Henry Canpbell-B: an bad a conversstio with a shepherd and his wife in remote part of Scotland. You will be very lonely and dall here,' said Sir Henry to the shepherd's wife, on the long dull winter evenings." Oh no,' she said, "not that, Sir, I am so busy." "Busy," he said, how can you be busy fa this place 2" 'Oh,' she end, "you cee after Uhave things redd up, C have to teach the weans their lessons.' That, added Lord Shaw, was the secret of Scottish education in the past. parents' ud the habit of the home to have parental instruction car-well as each tions vance of the youn, people of pope bee 6 & pride io the educa-their circle. The perente" must the public authori because it was in the home that che: acter was built up.. "Next to the ioflcence of the home in attaining refinement and culter in the child personal inflaence of the teacher.' suggested by the present! pomitin The foregoing lengthy quotati
fatare prospects of education in Sh hai, which have, indicated by the action of the Municipal Council in mppotntin Special Committee on Education become subjects for the serious cos: sideration of the community.
The Saint Andrew's Society of Shanghai for some years past has made Vigorous efforts to interest ite nationals Orig fro
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