The two disciplines in education : an address delivered at the opening of the medical session, Mason University College, Birmingham / by Sir William T. Gairdner, M.D., K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow.

  • William Tennant Gairdner
Date:
1899
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Credit: The two disciplines in education : an address delivered at the opening of the medical session, Mason University College, Birmingham / by Sir William T. Gairdner, M.D., K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    attempt, therefore, to anticipate by a year the acquisition of some of this preliminary discipline does not in any way encroach on the time or attention to be given to more strictly medical or technical studies; but rather, by clearing the way for these in advance, permits the years passed at the medical centre to be more fully occupied by the studies proper to the medical art. I am far from assuming that no errors have been committed, or that there is not a good deal to be said on both sides ; but from what I have already laid before you in this dis- course, you will be prepared for the statement that I could not approve of anything that would tend to discourage the teachin of elementary science in English schools; and on this ground I voted with the minority on this occasion. I think the future is with the English colleges in this matter, and I trust they will persevere. I have now only, Gentlemen, to congratulate you on your appearance in a school so well furnished in all its departments as Mason College, with whose origin and early progress one of my oldest friends, the late Dr. Heslop, was so closely associated that my interest in it may be said to date back to a period when I was still an Edinburgh man, an extra-academical teacher and hospital physician, and not a Glasgow University professor. I most cordially hope, for you, that the great scheme of a Midland University with which this school is ever to be asso- ciated, may be successfully carried out; and meanwhile, I would join in the welcome extended to you by all your teachers, and in the anticipation of a prosperous and successful session. Ha el English, Printers, 71, High Street, Birmingham.
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