[To -the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] ' . agree with
Miss King-Hall that ContinentaLSchools on
the whole work-harder, and the result of their system is there- fore- more knowledge ; but I am prepared to deny- that the education -is better. Education is, to my thinking, not the knowledge acquired, but the kind of mind which is the result of that education. Education is not knowledge, but the key of knowledge, pit into the hands of those who can and will use it in the &time.
It is this conception of education which make Latin and mathematics the the basis of education. That they are. not always taught in a way to achieve the ends of education, and that they are sometimes treated as ends not means, I do not deny. But to use literature for the education of the literary mind, and domestic service for the education of the domestic mind, and classics for the education of the teaching mind, is not a sound proposition. It is making education technical rather than fundamental.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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