METHODS OF TEACHING
SIR,—With regard to the talk by the President of the Board of Education, broadcast on November 24th, we, as members of the staff of a large secondary school, beg to register a protest. We are concerned at Mr. Butler's apparent ignorance of present-day methods of teaching, and fear that he misled the public on this subject.
Lessons are no longer a dull routine of academic learning and tables. For many years it has been customary to relate lessons to modern life by such means as visits to places of geographical, industrial and civic interest both here and abroad, and by the use of epidiascopes, lanterns, m'croprojectors, films, broadcast talks, acting, mock trials, and debates. It is a pity that the public should be led to regard as progress, improve- ments which were made thirty years ago in the average English school.— Yours faithfully,
THE STAFF OF THE MAIDSTONE Gnus' GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
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