We fear that the middle-class public knows nothing about the
great educational system built up and managed by the London County Council. If our fears are justified, Mr. Margrie's entertaining and unpretentious little book will be a revelation to middle-class readers. He illustrates the working of the system by taking a typical school—one of a thousand— somewhere in Camberwell or Peckham, and describing the ordinary routine with humorous but by no means improbable variations. He makes us realize the keen interest which children, parents, teachers and the neighbourhood generally take in each school, and its athletic, social and intellectual triumphs. "What Council schools are to-day, England will be to-morrow," he says with a very great deal of truth. "So if you want a constructive and interesting hobby, join a group of managers or a care committee, and then you will become a nation-builder and a race-builder."
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