, Socialist Propaganda in Schools - Mr. Herbert Morrison's protest-
to The Times on the subject of the London Labour Party's proposal to re-write school text-books is not very reassuring. He frankly admits that his party proposes to set up a committee to examine and report on all text-books in use in L.C.C. schools " with a view to replacing those books not regarded as accurate and reliable with books of a more impartial character." The impartiality of such books is to be judged in the light of the political views of the London Labour Party, and the body which is examin- ing the question is the London Labour Party's Education Research Group, and its findings are to be laid before the Education Committee of a Labour L.C.C. No wonder Mr. Jenkyn Thomas, President of the Incorporated Association of Head Masters, is impelled to protest, and to point out that the teachers themselves have a better claim to judge the accuracy and reliability of the school text-books.
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