,A HEADMASTER REMEMBERS • By Guy Kendall
The educator of youth, like the monk in his cloister, is detached from the workaday world. Thus Mr. Guy Kendall's agreeably written antobiography, A headmaster Remembers (Gollanez, 8s. Bd.), must needs appeal mainly to academic readers, who will like his recollections of Eton and Magdalen and of pre-War Charterhouse where he taught for some years before becoming headmaster of University College tiehool. He had one short and strenuous experience of settlement work in Ancoats, Manchester, in 1900-1, and this chapter in the book is of special interest. Mr. Kendall is judiciously'. reticent about his later problems. But he shares the growing doubts about the wisdom of dropping the classics in favour of " Science " from the age of fourteen ; boys from the " modern side " who are supposed to have studied chemistry and physics for years often prove inferior to their classical comrades when, side by side, they begin a scientific course at the university. Mr. Kendall has also abandoned his youthful belief that all men are born equal in talent and, judging from the performances of the county scholars at his school, concludes " that the intellectual heredity of the working class is not equal to that of the middle class."
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