52,—To anyone at all concerned at the results of education
in this country, the article by Dr. Percy Dunsheath will come as an encourage- ment. Going about as I do in connexion with the Army Bureau of Current Affairs, I am appalled at the abysmal ignorance of the vast mass II our electorate, which is alarming in the extreme. No democracy can persist in the face of such ignorance, which is by no means confined to the "uneducated" classes.
"Education," as Sir Richard Livingstone has said, "is a handmaid the art of living, and to conceive it otherwise is to reduce it to a mere vity of the intelligence." That is why one can all the more welcome ii. Dunshearh's insistence on the humane side of education, but first enong these I would put recent history, not 1066, the Treaty.,of Utrecht, and Disraeli's "leap in the dark," but what has happened in the last enty years (wherever you may count back from), for those are the gs which affect the art of living at any time. Very few people seem knew how we govern ourselves, what has happened in the last ten ears, or what the crucial issues are at any time.
It is possible, as Sir Richard would insist with Aristotle, that such nets are the province of 'adult education ; if this is so, and with and to their vital importance, one would like to ask Dr. Dunsheath ether some scheme for adult workers, possibly under the auspices of e Voluntary Bodies for Adult Education, might not be put into opera-
It is clearly the province of the universities to instil some know- • ge, or at least desire for knowledge, into the " educated " classes, and scheme of their devising should run concurrently with that established the industrial workers. I fly these suggestions as kites ; but I am vinced of the urgent necessity for some scheme to be devised.—
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