A STANDARD FOR EDUCATION Sm,—Those who discuss education and the
equality of all children are in my opinion, the opinion of a schoolboy, inclined to overlook certain vital factors in the everyday constitution of England and indeed the constitution of the world as our Lord created it. Are all our faculties, brains, intelligence, commonsense and the ability of leadership going to be listed together under the one term, that of " brains " ? At the age of i t, when perhaps the child's intelligence is more developed than his other abilities, it seems the child will be placed in a school where the only consideration is the ability to work. The nation is to be run by the brainiest but not necessarily the most talented for governing. Again, by this system, where is the need for parents to strive for the benefit of their children? Private enterprise would decay, and the country would be reduced to a state of complete Communism.—Yours faithfully, Jolts!. H. SIMPSON. Westcroft, Park View Road, Woldingham, Surrey.
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