MY IDEAL SCHOOL-WHERE CAN I FIND
IT ?
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I through your columns thank the very large number of correspondents who have given me information on this subject? I have already replied direct to a con- siderable number, but if any others would care to have infor- mation about the type of school for which I was inquiring, I will gladly put my experience at their disposal.
Thanks to the interest created by my previous letter, I think I have been able to find exactly the school for which I was looking, but only one or two of my correspondents suggested any of the large public schools. Evidently there is a large consensus of opinion that the ideals which I suggested are on the right lines, and yet it is quite evident that these are not met by the usually accepted public school. Are we asking too much of the schools, or is it that the schools themselves are not sufficiently liberally open-minded, and regard education in too narrow a sense ?
To any other parents (to whom I have not already replied direct) may I say that in order to get a boy into a good school, one should look at least four or five years ahead, and also, one cannot go purely on the name of the school and its past reputation.
Having got this next step fairly well settled, I now look forward to a further move, and wonder if any of your readers can give me their experience as to the advisability of sending a boy to the University, rather than letting him stay at home and take his technical or vocational training at a technical school in his own town. One hears so much of a likely boy being spoiled for real hard work by going to the University, and any information which the Spectator can give on this subject would be very much appreciated.—I am, Sir, &c., BM/BO2L. C/o Monomark House, High Holborn, London, W.C.1.
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