[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S ix,—As one who has
had experience of both types of school may I be allovied to give my wholeLhearted support to the most excellent article by Mr. Stephen Gwynn in your issue of March 17th ? * ' One point only. would I venture to emphasize. If all day schools did in fact bring together the young of every class, then".this one advantage, apart from the many other cogent reasons given by Mr. Gwynn, should be quite sufficient to incline the scales in their favour. For, Sir, if class hatred— founded as it largely is on class ignorance—is ever to be eliminated or even mitigated, it must be by some such method.
Young people of widely different ranks can and will mix freely together on an equal footing—but only the young.
It is saddening to see the efforts of well-intentioned persons which are doomed in many cases to be absolutely' futile, simply because they are inevitably accompanied by that patronage on the one side which so often produces merely sullen acceptance on the other. The most pressing problem to-day is how to get the various classes' of society to know each other better. Mr. Gwynn's article supplies the answer.—
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