[To ma EDITOR 07 THE " spzeTAToz. - 1
Sin.,—Might I point out to Messrs. Childs and Omond that, in addition to the section which they quote in your last issue from the Report of the Poor Law Commission, 1909, other sections of the same Report read as follows P-
" We have received evidence from all parts of the country, and especially from the rural districts, as to the incompleteness and unsuitability of the education in public elementary schools in pre- paring children for their after life."—Part IV., chap. 8.
And again :—
" There is a consensus of feeling, in which we ourselves concur, that the present education is too literary and diffuse in its character, and should be more practical. It should be more combined than at present with manual training. It is not in the interests of the country to produce by our system of education a dislike of manual work and a taste for clerical and intermittent work If school training is to be an adaptation of the child to its future life and occupation, some revision of the present curriculum of public elementary schools seems necessary."— Part VI., chap. 4.
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