[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—The Presidential Address on "'The Informative Content of Education " made by Mr. H. G. Wells to the British Associa- tion, was a brilliant feat of outspokenness. And how- sorely in need mankind is of being told the unvarnished truth Mr. Wells has done it in -his usual unreserved pointed manner. But to my thinking, the- informative content does not fully cover the subject of education, inasmuch as it gives the norma- tive element no due consideration. More important for society is it even that its members have their sense of social responsi- bility cultivated, than that they should be possessed of a wide range of knowledge, however selective. The true aim of education is not only to fill the head, but to fit the heart. Know- ledge without discipline is conducive to restlessness.
The imperative need in the educational system everywhere is the inculcation of religious sentiments, based upon the common -sense of solidarity—horizontal, vertical,– central.—I am, Sir,
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