A Spectator's Notebook
IF MEMBERS of the Labour Party wish to understand the reasons for its present unpopularity, they could do worse than examine a couple of paniphlets which have come out in connection with its education policy : one from the Association of Head Masters, the other from the Associa- tion of Assistant Masters, of grammar schools. It Is not that both these organisations oppose Labour's plans for education—this was inevitable —that counts; it is the reasoned way in which they put forward their arguments. I do not myself set much store by appeals to preserve school 'tradition' : they have too often been made to preserve anomaly and injustice. But I am sure that the authors are right when they argue that time should be allowed for the comprehensive school experiment to show its worth; and the con- trast between the sober appraisal of the situation in these pamphlets and the scatty speeches at Scar- borough speaks for itself.
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