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KING EDWARD VII.
conventional lines. That a man should be educated to and for his vocation, was the theory of the man who had been most carefully trained to Kingship: moreover, he regarded knowledge as the root and promise of peace.
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In the better education of the people lies one great hope of the future, . . . . for the wide diffusion of cultivated intelligence is the surest guarantee of social peace, and the most fruitful source of self-reliance.
(1904)
He was especially insistent on the value of technical training, remarking:—
Hitherto English teaching has chiefly relied on training the intellectual faculties so as to adapt men to apply their intelligence in any occupation of life to which they may be
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