Modernism in the Public Schools The newHeadmaster of Winchester is
one of that increas- ing band of schoolmasters who would wean the public schools from the excessive rigidity of tradition. In expressing his views at the Public School Junior Masters' Conference at Harrow he put two sides of the question. First, education " for citizenship" meant education in living themes—modern languages, geography, the principles of commerce, and the working of Government, Parliament and the judicial system. But, secondly, if that first aim was to be attained, schoolmasters would have to prepare themselves for their task, seeing more people and more things, so that they could bring back into the school some echo of the world outside. There are, of course, two sides to this question, but in the great public schools there is at present no danger that the views of 1r. Leeson will be over-emphasized.
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