Education at the British Association.

Abstract

THE presidential address was devoted to the consideration of the progress made in the development of an objective standard in education. It was therefore a departure from the type of address with which this section has been opened, and as such it marks a distinct stage in the evolution of the science of education. Prof. Adams's statement was distinguished by its moderation. He realises the difficulties, but is not unhopeful of their being overcome. Whether the psychologists will be quite happy about his statement that education has captured their subject is not quite certain, but, much as education owes to psychology, there can be little doubt that psychology is vastly in the debt of education. But we are only at the beginning of the scientific study of the problem of education, which, by reason of its special aims and restricted field, must ultimately acquire that definite-ness which we recognise as belonging to the older sciences represented in the British Association.