To the Editor of the "Norra-Cama Datry News."
Sim,—In s recent leading article headed, humorously enough, "Gi and the small boy," I cannot think that. you were quite fair to the present Headmaster of Winchester. You quote his own words, it is true: but you immediately proceed to annotate them in a sense which, I thiok, Dr. Burge would utterly repudiate. The words I refer to are as fol Those who rendered the best service to the study of the Greek language were those who made sure that the methods of introducing the study were reasonable and intelligible." Your next words are: "In other words Dr. proposes that boys should be kept oe grammar and little else until they are upwards of fourteen years old, and believes, presumably, that such a dry course of study will best inspire them with reverence for the cause of learning and for the Greek language.'
Ido not believe that Dr. Burge for amement proposed that boys should be "kept on grammar and little else.' That expression implies that he wishes languages. to prevent their learning Greek at anormal rate: that he would ha the dry study of grammar carried to a. far higher point than is now the case, by these small boys. Whereas I am fairly confident that his meaning really is that the small boy at present is crammed with or in the Greek language
pride which is really et for all pre-to an abnormal and ciety bare ree: and he proj
paratory schools by the scholarship examination papers at Winchester and Eton, shall be deliberately restricted within such limits as shall discourage the present practice of cramming boy, to enable him at fourteen todo a bit of Greek Unseen which might more reasonably be set for boys of sixteen or seventeen.
In other words the whole force of the protest made by the Headmasters of Winchester and Eton, the two schools whose scholarships are notoriously the hardest to wio—is against cramming in Greek. He does not, so far as I know, or can j with to "postpone all manner of education beyond an age "at which it was the fait accompli se, such cramming as I speak of our fathers." Thirty years
fro well-known schools: it is now was confined to one or number of rival The H.-C. herald and S. C. & w. Gazerte.
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