On museum education : presidential address / by Jonathan Hutchinson.

  • Hutchinson, Jonathan, Sir, 1828-1913.
Date:
[1908?]
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    Museums Association. IPSWICH CONFERENCE, 1908. On Museum Education. PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. By Jonathan Hutchinson, D.Sc., LL.D., M.D., F.R.S. lV/TY FIRST and most pleasing duty is to thank the ^ Council and members of our Society for the honour conferred in electing me its president. It is well known to many that I can make no pretention to eminence in any one of those departments of natural knowledge which find their home in our great museums. The most I can claim is that I take an interest in them all, and that I am a firm believer in their value as means to individual and national education. It is as an advocate of Educational Museums, and of their claims to state recognition, rather than as representing any branch of science that I to-day occupy this chair. The subject chosen as the topic of my discourse is, the place of museums in relation to national education, and it divides itself by natural cleavage into several sections. The first concerns the scope and value of such collections as means of diffusing knowledge and developing faculty, and the next the methods by which the public and more es- pecially its younger portion may be induced and enabled to avail itself of the means so provided. I have to shew that the water is good, that the horse may be brought to the water, and that when there he may be persuaded to drink. Amongst the topics with which I propose to deal are first, the incalculable superiority of objective teaching over that by means only of words ; and next the duty of