[To uts Eprros or THE SPECTATOR") SIR,—Your interesting article in
the Spectator of July 16th seems calculated to mislead those whose sole information on the work of training for higher-grade teachers in England is derived from it. May I, then, be allowed to state that the Teachers' Training and Registration Society is already ten years old, and that for nine years past it has carried on a Training College for Teachers in higher-grade girls' schools, wherein more than two hundred teachers have been trained for teaching in Kindergartens and in girls' public schools ? In addition, a day-school for girls was opened by this Society in 1881, which includes a Kindergarten department. Its pupils number about 150, of ages varying from three to seventeen years.
The work is absolutely nnendowed, and its further develop. ment and completion—for which our plans are hilly formed— must depend to a large extent on the liberality of those who can and will help us. We desire to place both school and college on a thoroughly sound and permanent basis, where, in the best material conditions, our institution may continue and develop its work. The first step we wish to take is to secure a thoroughly good and suitable building wherein our Kinder. garten, day-school for girls, and Training College for Teachers may be carried on.
Experience proves that our work is yearly more valued by those for whom it is intended in the first instance, and the demand for our students when trained steadily rises, and is in excess of the supply. Let me add that training for higher- grade teachers has been begun within the past two years at Edinburgh, Oxford, Cambridge, and Cheltenham on the lines followed by oar Society. Oar present need is friends who can and will help us liberally to collect a sufficient sum to carry out our plans. I shall be very glad to give any information to those who care to ask for it, on what we have done and what we want
(Principal) Maria Grey Training Coltege, Teachers' Training and Registration Society.
5 Fitzroy Street, W., July 21st.
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