28 SEPTEMBER 1945, Page 10

This in itself is a healthy symptom, and one which

would delight me were it accompanied by an equally firm rejection of the propa- ganda of distrust. It would be a grave misfortune if the people of this country were to become susceptible to the suggestion that matters outside the area of their own knowledge are outside the area of their own interests ; or to confront all instruction on such matters with a mood of resistance which is largely based upon suspicious- ness of the unknown. It is to be regretted that this mood of scepti- cism should be so prevalent at a time when we need the maximum of confidence between the Government and the governed, since many years must elapse before a revised system of education create, that self-confidence which is the only modern antidote to distrust.