On Friday, December 30th, Mr. G. D. H. Cole, an
apostle of Guild Socialism and one of the intellectual advisers of Labour, tried to epcnir is bourgeois at the Educational Conference in London. His theme was that the teachers in schools ought to be rebels and ought to teach their pupils to be rebels. He described punctuality, discipline and industry as " slave virtues." He thought that if teachers would only assert themselves they could be reckoned upon to implant in boys and girls the desirable principles of disorder. We agree with the Morning Post that Mr. Cole has not wit enough for this kind of paradox. Mn Bernard Shaw can only just do it. " A paradox, like an oyster, must be-fresh." And, after all, it is almost impossible to shock the British public nowadays. Our senses have become numbed. Finally, we all happen to know that Mr. Cole's principles have been preached and applied in Russia. We have -all heard of the results. We can almost see them. People here are sub- scribing to reduce the suffering, the chaos and the mortalitar which have resulted.
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