A LIVELY PASSAGE.
4 I SCHOOL INSPECTORS' STATUS. UNDER-EDUCATED, UNCULTURED AND INFERIOR. " RAKING WASTE ■ PAPER BASKETS." By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrieht (Hec. March 22, 1ff.15 p.m.) London, March 22. A lively passage occurred in the Hous« of Commons to-day between Mr. S. J. G. Hoare, a youthful Conservative member who sits for Chelsea, and Mr. Itunciman, President of the Board of Education. Mr. Hoare had initialed a debate on a circular issued by tlio divisional inspectors of the Education Department, deprecating tho appointment of exolementary teachers as local inspectors, and suggesting ' that they were uncultured, imperfectly educated, and socially inferior. Tho inspectors, it was claimed, should be men educated at Oxford or Cambridge Universities, or in the public schools. Mr. Runciman replied with warmth, and said he did not know of the. issue of such a document, which was confidential, and merely the chief inspector's opinion. Ho accused Mr. Hoare,of raking out the waste-paper baskets at Whitehall, or receiving stolen goods. Mr. Balfour, Leader of the Opposition denounced Mr. Eunciman'c violence, anc invited him to apologise to Mr. Hoare.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1083, 23 March 1911, Page 5
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177A LIVELY PASSAGE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1083, 23 March 1911, Page 5
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