The Archbishop of Canterbury, at the opening of the new
schools in the parish of St. Michael and All Angels, Croydon, on Tuesday evening, delivered an address on the religious aspect of the education question. There was a twofold object in opening these schools, built at a cost of nearly £5,000 by private donors to replace buildings condemned four years ago by the Board of Education and the local education authority. In the first place, they sought to secure greater efficiency. Secondly, they attached a special value to the particular teaching in schools such as these. "They wanted their children to be trained with a-distinctive sense of membership of the corporate body in which they had been brought up. They thought all this was worth paying for, and they also believed in giving children a choice of schools." The Archbishop concluded with a significant, and, on the whole, reassuring, reference to the progress of the negotiations over the Education Bill. Admitting himself to be optimistic, be said that "he did not despair of a solution of the educational problem which should give effect and scope to all these varieties while pre- serving the principles for which they stood. At any rate, he was doing his best to bring about such a result without saorifloing the principles for which they cared so much."
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