• Mr. Haldane, speaking at the Clothworkers' Company on Wednesday,
told a very interesting story. He was recently, he said, talking to a foreigner who had made his fortune and had settled in England, and he said to him : "You come from a land where education is at its highest, and I suppose you are going to educate your son in the methods you know?" "Well," was the answer, "we foreigners have, no doubt, better educational methods than yourselves, but there is a school called Eton which has something that does not exist on the Continent, and that is a method of training rulers of men, and just because my son is the son of a foreigner I am going to send him there." That is striking as coming from an educational authority like Mr. Haldane, who, though by no means a pessimist about either our mannfactures or our system of technical education, yet sees very clearly how defective is our scientific training as regards the masters, if not as regards the men.
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