The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : Monday
was devoted to the Board of Education. Mr. Lindsay delivered an eloquent speech, full of the right sentiments and outlining what had been done in the past year. He spoke of the intention of the Government to increase the number of nursery, industrial and technical schools, to reform the examination system, to raise the standard of rural education, and to provide for extended physical training. He made the interesting statement that 42 per cent. of the male students attending all universities come from elementary schools. Mr. Lees-Smith, for the Labour Party, complained that the proposed reorganisation of education brought us no nearer to Labour's aim of " secondary education for all " (i.e., a secondary education standard), while Sir Percy Harris pointed out that the President of the Board, being in the House of Lords, could not be adequately in touch with the problems of elementary education. " The other House has its uses, but I am pretty safe in saying there is not a single member of that august body who has a boy or girl at an elementary school."
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