EDUCATION IN BRITAIN.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20168, 21 February 1931, Page 3

EDUCATION IN BRITAIN.

JiORD .j ' r^jbPA3^pfe|:. 1 CRITICISM OP METHODS. 'I j ' ' J 1 ,i 0P» ,*>W*'COEB*SfOM»T.i • 1 LONDON, | Far too much money was being Spent on education, declared Jfittd ( .WW"! wajer, formerly, Speaker efc theJßouse' of Commons, in his presidential >&§-; 1 dress at the North of -iJSng > tion Conference kit {Carlisle. " 'The - - g<Jt-' tin£ . value for v cause we were iryini; lo teach elementary school children, too' many syb-,' jecta. « s - „ 1- 1 i-4 '•>, -.ifesi - H& - gave some striking examples from his "own -experience to shrfvrb'ow 1 . little,children" f 'from tainea of what tHey Jtad liecn taught. •- Speaking; of raiting ot the bchool age, ho said the suggestion'of paying a bribe 'to' parerits to keep their ch»l- * dren tat school taftfc < one', of 'the v most demoralising he had ever como'across. The speech 4t disbcut, but his lordship merely' remarked v "1 thought J there Vould-';bes difference of Opitfion." ,•' , '.Lord - «ud s year tlie Education Estimates were going to bo ■ fifty-odd - could not afford .that in these-} All had got; ,a tit .of squander man ia. TJiey yyere s»ndjng/:. too much money—TUjot .but, the money—rand: pile the subjects gn which ' fat' too' jtaticn; money wps spent, was .education, / - Crammed and Forgotten. With rezaixT to elementary education, children.'wjere novv graphy, history,music, • gardening, ■ Nature study, and elementary science* All"' Sorts" of' thing! of that' kind were dinned into them, and jhe' thought wrongly." They flirted witb' many branches of education >and did . not,, feilly bring about the Union - itU©, chila and the important elements >" of education.' A > , '*. ■*->* ,w ' Lest they should think -iio was- eiag- v gerating ip any wayheypould tell them, what happened to -him.on om • occasion* He went into Hn elementary saw the children writing- an .qpsay on"Persian and Babylonian Dynasties Com- *j pared." . (Laughter.) He would ' : not< ask those present to write'an essay on, that, but was sensible s to'aSk children-of J3,,and r 14 to write an' essays that. That sort 0f.,; stuff was' crammed in at one? ear. bljfdrp the written, " and it" came * ojit' at Tineo%r. /It a, «hilft;did not retain very nra&li"of that,' * '? , Cpuid' Not SpeU . 7 ; He wguld give them example, showing little children- did'retain; He waa,sp6aking to bookstall at .a country railway station where th§j employed several 'asked i£ the boys had just school. The v manager,.oi tho booUtatt replied, "Year, they have jfast finished t&air. edu(J*ord UUswKtct)

sLrjSßa t©" I Charles Trevqlyah i (Mwiswr tion) spoke en^huria^tißal^r ! «>i >;|xtisnßiott of; : tho promised -that aU sorts* of J happen' before Decembers -those things liad Happcne.dl, The State was botrnftv child a good 'chanee, stl 'do that by tcachiny a 1 for tho best education, self^edudatitm.,, At,a. early ago'it Bhould --bo, e teacher t^^d^c(^vcr^aino3tt^b2,lufe purstoing further. wV, ? go on spend ing 'nionfey r® f t who "would neves-do S selves injaft£r,\life lute rwaatb' o| I did' not they,might'be i ; would set in a, rbactiou, j this gxipat