Special Reports on Educational Subjects

SPECIAL REPORTS

EDUCATIONAL SUBJECTS,

VOLUME 3.

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1898,

To Sir G. W. KEKEWICH, K.C.B.,

Secretary of the Education Department.

SIR, I HAVE the honour to present to you the accompanying volumes of Reports on Educational Subjects, which form a selection from the memoranda prepared by or for the Office of Special Inquiries and Reports during 1897–98.

These volumes, like that published last year, form part of a series on the educational systems of this and other countries. In view of the interest now taken in the comparison of different methods of teaching and of different forms of school-organization, it is hoped that the following reports may be found useful by

students of education.

I desire to take this opportunity of acknowledging the courtesy of the Prussian Government in acceding to a request, transmitted to them through the Foreign Office, for permission to publish a complete translation of the "Curricula and Programmes of Work for Higher Schools in Prussia," and that of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales in contributing a paper on the system of Intermediate Education in Wales.

Thanks are also due to a number of ladies and gentlemen, in this country and abroad, for their kindness in contributing reports on various educational subjects for publication on the present occasion.

The United States Commissioner of Education and the President of Harvard University have both been so good as to promise to prepare essays on some aspects of American education, but their reports are deferred until next year owing to their having been prevented from completing their contributions in time for these volumes.

Each Report bears the name of its author, and it should be understood that only the writers are responsible for the opinions therein expressed.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

MICHAEL E. SADLER,

Director of Special Inquiries and Reports.

Education Department Library,

Cannon Row,

London, S.W.

September, 1898.

VOLUME III.

CONTENTS.

1. The National Organisation of Education of all