Introductory : A Message from Lord Eustace Percy
Ws: have the privilege of publishing the following message from the President of the Board of Education, written specially for the first Educational Supplement of the Spectator :- The lines on which the administration of public education should proceed for at least the next three years have now been settled by the formulation of progranunes by Local Education Authorities. The central aim of those programmes is that sketched out by the Government at the time of the General Election : a larger provision of secondary school places and the organization of advanced instruction for all children from about the age of eleven onwards. On this task we are concentrating, and in it we are making very substantial progress. In this way alone can we make possible a lengthening of school life beyond the present age of compulsory attendance.
Our next task in educational administration is probably an improvement of our system of technical education. This will require careful planning, industry by industry. A good deal of the ground has been recently surveyed by Sir Arthur Balfour's Commission, and the need for improvement is evident, especially in the direction of more part- time day classes.
The field of public and private education is so vast that we cannot attempt to cover more than a tithe of the subjecti which naturally suggest themselves in the following pages:. However, we hope to prepare other educational supplements at a later date, or at least to publish articles on educational subjects, as opportunity offers. Meanwhile we would especially commend to our readers' attention the article entitled Harrow, 1927;" for what the author writes of that school is applicable to all. There can be no doubt that in the changing world of to-day the responsibility of our Public Schools is great, if they would retain the prestige they have so rightly won. With regard to the Suggestions of Mr. Norwood, regarding world peace, we feel that a more imagilla. tive teaching of geography, such as is already being under- taken in sonic schools, will have a profound effect in develop- ing a sense of solidarity in civilization. But cheap travel is perhaps the most urgent need of the future.
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