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Until recently it had always seemed to me that the apathy of the political parties towards edu- cation was shared by the majority of people in this country. Not now. The founding of the Cambridge Association for the Advancement of State Education, for example, led to many other bodies of the same kind throughout the country, and now there is no shortage of new ideas. Mr. John Vaizey, whose November lecture to the Fabian Society has just been printed as a pamphlet, has one for every paragraph he writes. He rests his demands, of course, on the thesis that only through a large-scale reform of edu- cation can the influence- of the class system ba diminished, so he cannot be expected to endear himself to everyone. I think that the Bow Group ought to be a little alarmed about the way so much recent educational thinking is coming either from the Fabian Society or from groups with no political party connections at all. I would sug- gest that one of the ways they might restore their waning influence would be to give to edu- cational reform .some of the energy they once gave to the future of Africa.
STARBUCK
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