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THE Conference which was held at the Health Exhibition last week has achieved a remarkable success. It was attended by upwards of a thousand persons, including many of the leading teachers in English, Scotch, and continental schools, University professors, statesmen, managers of schools, and others interested in different ways in the subject of education. The interest was so well sustained that all four sections were more crowded on the last day than the first, and very general regret was expressed that the Conference should close so soon. Two circumstances mainly contributed to this result. The president, Lord Reay, by his tact and courtesy, his knowledge of foreign languages, and his cosmopolitan experience was singularly qualified, both to obtain from different continental States their most fitting representatives, and to give to these representatives when they arrived appropriate tasks and a worthy welcome. And Lord Reay was helped in the task of organising the Conference by a small but efficient committee, by whom during several previous months the work of selecting the readers of papers had been sedulously pursued. Unless pains had been taken in relation to each subject of discussion to secure that it should be initiated by a person who spoke upon it with some authority, and special knowledge, the result would have been far less satisfactory.
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The International Conference on Education . Nature 30, 363–365 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030363a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/030363a0