Classics and the Average Boy. (The Times Office. Os. net.)
—In the Educational Supplement of January 2nd the Times pub- lished a letter from "A Public Schoolmaster" adversely criticising the education given in our secondary schools. Put briefly and roughly, it was an attack on the classical curriculum, The letter called forth various answers and comments, and these—twenty-one in all—together with the "Public Schoolmaster's" reply, are now published in pamphlet form. We do not propose to discuss the question: the letters may be road with profit, and not, we can easily believe, without an occasional fluctuation of opinion. One remark only will we make. How about the economical side of the question One of the writers asks, what is to be done in the matter of teaching Greek in a small school of sixty boys with a staff of three or four ? It would be more to the purpose to ask what can be done in teaching science. Literary education, be the subject matter Greek, or Latin, or English, or Continental languages, is, anyhow, cheap. Think what Oxford has spent on the apparatus of science I
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