JUDD LAUDS AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL METHODS

Addressing his audience on "The Unique Character of American Education". Dr. O. H. Judd, Director of the School of Education at Chicago University, psychologist and scholar in education, delivered the Inglis Lecture on secondary education last night in Emerson Hall. Pointing out three distinct differences in American and European educational systems. Dr. Judd stated that he felt that the secondary schools in America had been unfairly criticised by European scholars.

"The American secondary school", he said, "is far more flexible than any of the secondary schools in either England. France, or Germany, and this feature is one of the unique distinctions between American and European secondary schools." The curriculum of the typical French secondary school limits the students to a certain definite course, he said, and they stvive to give the pupils a coherent education by requiring him to take the same courses repeatedly. "The American system," he continued, "gives the student a coherent educational training by making his school work interesting and informing to him."

The two other important differences in the two systems of education, he pointed out, are accessibility and control Edu cation is practically within the reach of every boy and girl in America, whereas the number of children in Europe who may receive an education is necessarily restricted. High schools in America are controlled by the locality in which they are, but in most European countries, either the Federal or State Government have direct control of the schools