7 APRIL 1923, Page 3

As to the proposal to increase the size of classes,

nothing could be worse. If it is obvious to the layman, it should at least be clear to the expert that no teacher, however gifted, can do justice to a class of thirty-five, much less of sixty. The result of these economies is to save about half the cost of one capital ship. If we have not yet reached the stage where the nation feels the need to maintain and build up its racial power through heredity, at least we can keep what we have achieved by centuries of patient toil along environmental lines. Education in all classes should be the last place for false economies.