On education from the medical standpoint : inaugural address as president of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch, British Medical Association, June 29th, 1892 / by G.E. Shuttleworth.

  • Shuttleworth, G. E. (George Edward), 1842-1928.
Date:
1892
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Credit: On education from the medical standpoint : inaugural address as president of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch, British Medical Association, June 29th, 1892 / by G.E. Shuttleworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    world,” and to quote the words of Sir Philip Magnus in the Contemporary Review, November, 1887 (which strongly remind me of the sentiments of Seguin), “ Of the several organs through which we obtain a knowledge of the external world, the sense of touch and the muscular sense have a certain prominence as giv- ing us perceptions which are mainly intellectual. For this reason we should expect that the training of the muscular and tactile sensibility of the hand, and the training of the muscular sense generally, as exercised in the determination of size, shape, and resistance, would form an essential factor of education. But so little has this been the case, that until comparatively recent times” [Sir Philip might have added, except in Idiot Asylums] “the training of the faculties by which we obtain, at first hand, our knowledge of the things about us has been sadly neglected ; and education has consisted mainly in storing the memory with words, with the statements and opinions of others, and of infer- ences therefrom. Apart altogether from the value of the constructive power which manual skill affords, the knowledge of the properties of matter which is obtained in the acquisition of that skill is considerable, and cannot be equally well acquired in any other way . . . . ‘ The introduction of manual work into our schools is important,’ says Sir John Lubbock, ‘ not merely from the advantage which would result from health, nor