Lord Eustace Percy has stated that there is to be
a cut in the Education Estimates this year, but that the cut will be apparent, not real. He explained that in recent years there had been over-budgeting in connexion with education and that several million pounds voted had really gone towards the payment of debt. " I am going to try to get away from that precedent. I am not piing in any way to reduce educational services." Lord Eustace's speech has, nevertheless, caused rumours that education is going to suffer. For our part we know Lord Eustace's genuine concern for education and we are quite content to believe that he meant literally what he said. This country cannot afford to be uneducated. We must live by our brains or not at all. Meanness in educational expenditure is not economy at all.
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