13 JULY 1895, Page 17

VOLUNTARY EDUCATION.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—Why do people never suggest that parents will be willing to pay towards the support of voluntary schools ? There are large numbers, I feel sure, who will prefer to do this, rather than send their children to schools which they disapprove. I know a town in which there is one elementary school with one hundred on the books. The children pay 2d. to 4d. a week, whilst every other infant- school in the town is free.—I am, Sir, &c., UTOPIAN.