EDUCATION THE PROBLEM OF THE FUTURE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2641, 11 December 1915, Page 7

EDUCATION THE PROBLEM OF THE FUTURE

I The Rov. W. Temple, late Headmaster of Repton, in his presidential address at/ the annual meeting of tho Workers' Educational. Association at Birmingham, said that the whole problem of our future was one of education. England had never believed in education, but if the war had not created 6uch _ belief we had assuredly missed naif its meaning. He agreed that in many respects, our - educational policy had been unwise, and t'hat it stopped short too soon. Just at the, moment when the period of greatest expansion, moral and mental, was beginning children were thrown out into a world where they were subject to chance influences, and no losson was sure to be impressed upon them oxcept that a i man must fight for his own interests if he were not to go under. He contended that by increasing expenditure, by prolonging tho period of education, and by reducing the size of classes it would be found more remunerative than any investment that could be made. In any case there must be equality of opportunity, and if sacrifice was necessary equality of sacrifice. England's splendid educational foundations must be held in trust for the nation's welfare.