EDUCATION BY MEANS OF SIGHT-SEEING. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE
"SPECTATOR."] SIR,^I was deeply interested in your article in the last number of the Spectator. The Wokingham Lecture Society, in the formation of whieh you so kindly gave me your assistance a year ago, has adopted the policy of inviting fifteen Children from the three elementary schools in this town to the illustrated lectures of the Society. Since the New Year they have visited Venice, Constantinople, Peru, and over the Andes to the Amazon. With Mr. Frank Wild they have journeyed on the last Shackleton expedition to the Antarctic), and before the session closes they will have travelled through the Southern States of America with Mr. Stephen Graham, and will also have paid a visit to the Panama Canal. The boys and girls thoroughly enjoy these lectures, and have acquired considerable information in an easy and pleasant form. From our experiment I feel sure that illustrated lectures could play a most important part in the education of the older children in the elementary schools of country towns, and at the same time create an intelligent Interest in their school studies, which they will carry with them into after years.—I am, Sir, he., E. S. WHALEY, Hon. Secretary.
Wokingham Lecture Society, Wokingham, Berks.
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