A short debate on school camps was attended by less
than a score of members, there being no great personal questions in- volved. There are now thirty-one camps in existence. Until the whole conduct of these new educational experiments is put in the hands of the Board of Education, it is idle to expect an informed discussion. There now appears to be a chance that this course will be taken. After all, these camps are boarding- schools for boys who would normally attend Senior or Central schools. They raise education problems of the first order; they may pave the way for new types of instruction, new curricula and new methods. I hope that Mr. MacDonald' will free the Ministry of Health from any further connexion with them, so that their fruitful experience may permeate the new educational structure which the post-war world will demand.
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