In the recently published Board of Education Report on the
Teaching of English "what should be done was rendered abundantly clear : how it could be done" was a problem left for the teachers themselves to solve. The Incorporated Association of Assistant Masters, therefore, has issued this Memorandum as a supplement to the Departmental Report. Its suggestions are eminently practicable and, whilst remaining progressive, do not forget the many limitations existing conditions necessarily impose. Grammar, drama (the sections dealing with the teaching of Shakespeare being particularly good), poetry and the essay are all dealt with in turn ; but we do not consider that enough attention has been called to the necessity of teaching good modern poetry nor to the splendid uses to which drama (especially original and interpreted drama) can be put in Secondary Schools.
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