Sm,—Mr. Bruce has made a very sensible suggestion in advocating
filling the public schools with the best brains in the country by a process of elimination which would be irrespective of the social or financial status of the parents. There is no doubt as to the ultimate benefit that such a system would render to the country.
When education is considered in our post-war reconstruction plan many of us will be interested to see how far the then prevailing Government will move in this direction of equal opportunity for all. It seems to me the t successive Governments during the past 4o Tears have been reluctant to lay at the feet of the nation the full ucational facilities to which it is surely entitled. Some have suggested that a higher educational standard would further complicate our labour problems.
Certain it would be that had reforms been instituted earlier fewer people today would be reading the News of the World and more reading The Spectator.
How refreshing it would be to hear that Eton (founded originally for the education of poor boys) had at last abandoned its traditional Policy of accepting entries on the day of birth of a son of a son! A. B. C.
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