SHORT STUDIES IN EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND BY JOHN CLARKE LECTURER ON EDUCATION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK AND BOMBAY All rights reserved PREFACE. THIS little book is offered as a contribution toward the solution of problems many of which are familiar to students of Public Education in Scotland. Some of these problems may seem to be administrative rather than strictly educational; but the intimate connection of the two aspects can easily be shown, the former constantly involving the latter. It may seem, too, that the topics discussed are to some extent of merely passing interest, and that legislation, for which the country has so long looked in vain, will set a limit to the factitious importance they at present possess. This is hardly the case: the principles involved, e.g., in the relations of Primary and Secondary instruction, in those of central and local 85987 |