27 JUNE 1931, Page 17

FREEDOM IN EDUCATION

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—I was much interested to read Mr. Russell's theories on education in your issue of June 13th, but remained unconvinced on certain points. In theory it is easy to believe that " Manners, kindness and decency must not be inculcated by Words, but we must seek a method of making them grow up spontaneously." But I should greatly like to know how in his school he ensures that those in whom they have already grown up spontaneously should not " inculcate them • by words " upon the younger generation of scholars, as children have done since schools began. This must be the more difficult to avoid in a school in which "there should.. be no interference whatever with free speech."—I am, Sir, &c.,