Education November 1929

The knotted eyebrows of the thoughtful children who have come across a phrase which is deeper than the rest of the paragraph or a word about the meaning of which they are so much in doubt that the hand is placed under the desk to quietly bring out the dictionary for verification of their opinions ; the busy hum which is evidence of sturdy work in the noisier lessons ; the hubbub in the infant roo [...] Ordinary inspectors of schools cannot do this part of the business satisfactorily as they have their hands already full with supervising the academic side of the school life ; and even if they had time most of them are not qualified for the purpose The members of the Legistative Council and the Hon'ble the Minister of Education should come to the financial rescue of the Department and should not [...] A beginning is made with a study of the air and the carrying out of experiments as to the action of heat on metals and phosphorus in the presence of air; the rusting of iron is taken next and the balance"1 454 used. [...] The study of chalk leads to the investigation of the action of plants on the atmosphere and to the carbon cycle and the indestructibility of matter. [...] The Japanese prepared the silk used in covering the telephone cord ; the swarthy Indian mined the mica used for insulation : the Pennsylvanian mined the coal which in tiny grains makes the vocal cord of your telephone ; the Russian mined the platinum and the Alaskan the gold ; the Brazilian drained rubber from his jungle trees ; the Irishman raised the flax from which linen paper was made for the