The Government's Policy
'LIVER since the Education. Act of 1902 the nation I .4 has been trying to construct a coherent system Of secondary education, linking the elementary school with the University and the Technical College. The Act of 1918, valuable as it was, did not itself embody a coherent scheme ; and it is perhaps mainly for that reason that some of its 'most important provisions have never been carried into effect. Our task during the last few years has been to supply this want : to formulate a practical scheme of secondary education for all children, .to bring this secondary stage of education into organic relation with the Technical Colleges as well as with the Universities, to give the Universities their proper place and influence in the training of teachers, to enlist the support and co-operation of commerce and industry in the work of education and, by the reorganization of the Board's inspectorate and the institution of a system of local programmes, to. bring our administration into line with this clarified conception of education as an organic unity. It is only by keeping this 'conception Steadily before our eyes that we shall succeed in making education a powerful . instrument for the restoration of national happiness and prosperity.
'EUSTACE PER( 1".
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