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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 27

[resolution adopted]

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At the late Educational Congress in Aberdeen1

Aberdeen Congress.

the following Resolution was unanimously adopted:—

"That this meeting considers that there ought to be "instituted Chairs of Education in the Universities of "Aberdeen and Glasgow, and that a Faculty or Sub-Faculty of Education, with powers to give a Special "Teachers' Degree, should be constituted in all the "Scotch Universities." A full discussion elicited but very slight divergence of opinion as to the details; on the main point all the speakers were agreed. Among those who spoke were two clergymen of different denominations, a University Professor, two Principals of Training Colleges, the Rector of a Grammar or Higher Class Public School, and two old parochial schoolmasters. On any other educational question of importance it would, I think, be difficult to secure unanimity in a group so heterogeneous, its members having in some respects interests so diverse. It may, therefore, be accepted that the University recognition of Education carries with it many advantages, some of which influence one party and some another. For a detailed account of these advantages Professor Laurie's new volume on The Training of Teachers may be consulted, especially his inaugural address delivered on the page 6 occasion of the founding of the Chair of the Institutes and History of Education in the University of Edinburgh. The Aberdeen resolution commits the Educational Institute of Scotland to immediate and definite action. The time is opportune, for the Endowed Schools Commission is at work, and a University Executive Commission is promised. Of these bodies the former may be expected to procure the funds, or part of them, and the latter to supply the authority needed to realise the project. At this juncture, therefore, it cannot but be useful to review the history of the question, particularly in Scotland, to examine how far and on what conditions education has been accorded University recognition, and to formulate our claims so as to meet the objections of some, and secure the co-operation of all who have the good of our profession at heart.

1 1 January 4th, 1883.