Sut,—The two articles on this subject interested me greatly, sincerely
written as they obviously were, yet, as in a Test Match, the first to bat had a decided advantage, with the result that the reply became almost an apologia. Perhaps it was unfortunate that one should be labelled Socialist and the other Tory, because that immediately suggests Partisanship. I should like to make two specific points:
1. What is education ? Surely not boOk learning and such like in a school, but impressions accumulated in the home and environment from the earliest and most impressionable years, added to later by the new influence of a communal existence. \ 2. Much has been said of the taught but little of the teacheel It is here, in my view, that the real weakness of our established educational system exists. How can a teacher who has been himself indifferently educated benefit even the most alert pupil ?
In the future, as in the past, the best schools will always attract the most ambitious and vocational teacher. So, inevitably, certain boys will be ten yards ahead of the others in their chosen career.—
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