This is an extreme case, of course, but one extreme case means a mul: titude of minor cases, and yet extreme cases seem to have! fleet on some minds, The doctor has always been against the: examination system; he has for ations been obliged to submit to it himself, long before examina tions for teachers, engineers, nav' gating officers, and so on, were ever suggested, A' certain type of mind, never, very prevalent a teachers, will not be content out personal experiment, and the unfortunate child has been made the carpus vile on which succeeding ational methods have tried experiments, many of them disastrous.
Tt is true that many institutions, Universities, hospitals and others, and many commercial firms, before admitting youthful candidates, desire some assurance of a certain of preliminary studies.
might be said for the method of Mr. Squeers:
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i many, employers of patients, and principals of that it is not the certificate him that a class was just commencing fractions and asked him to give the lesson for the day, and to return the next day (after preparation) to give a lesson on the subject he considered himself best qualified to teach. He received an appoint: ment quite as much on the strength of these two sample lessons, as on that of any parchments he possess:
There is a certain homely proverb anent the proof of the pudding and the eating thereof. In any case, examinations should be reduced to a minimum, Furthermore the doctor is qualified as an educational critic by hi: wide experience of a profession which must by now run into millions, if we include not only all qualified doctors of both sexes and of all civilized races, but the armies of subsidiary and auxiliary professions, those of the male and female nurses, analytical and phatmaceutieal chem: ists, biologists, physiologists (not invariably doctors), manufacturers of drugs, of surgical instruments and hospital furniture, sanitary en-cineers and hospital architects. At every turn he is confronted by the question, ' Could not the candidates for these scientific professions and trades have been better prepared for their work by the schools Zeal or Experience?
A young probationer nurse runs up a bill for the hospital of some 330 the very first week, in her zeal for disinfection, by boiling all the thermometers within her reach.
Has she never learnt at school that heat expands matter, that mercery es the really competent teacher, or surgeon, Cyeullus non tacit monachum. This has been much realized in some countries "of late years: a train principal medical officer of India Office when interviewing candidates for plague work in India, both doctors and nurses, looked at their registration certificates and told them to put their sheaves of other parehients and testimonials in their He considered pow et himself us after some conversation eliciting the hospital at which the candidates had been ned and the experiener they had das any of the personages wh di granted the testimony ned be.
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