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AS women are playing an ever-increasing part in the national work of education, it was an eminently reasonable departure from pnecedent for the council of the Association to elect Mrs. Sidgwick to the presidency of Section L. The full text; 6f her address has. already appeared in NATURE, and need not, therefore,detain us here, except in so far as it gave an opportunity to Lord Bryce to dot the “i's” and cross the” t's” of what was, in fact, an extremely sane pronouncement. Those who heard him wilt not soon forget the vigour with which he associated himself with every word which the president had used. The confusion between education and book-learning, the fool's paradise in which modern democracies were apt to live when dealing with education and votes, the want of intellectual curiosity in England, a lament for the increasing disuse of the Bible—these were the main points, apart from some interesting personal reminiscences, of an unexpected but most welcome intervention.
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Education at the British Association . Nature 96, 327–329 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096327a0
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