"DRIVE SLOWLY"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 42, 13 November 1917, Page 6

"DRIVE SLOWLY"

DR. AUNGTON ON THE SPIRIT OP ENGLISH SCHOOLS.

In prcsciiling tho prizes nt tho Royal HTitiah Orphan School, Slough, recently, tho hcadmastor of Eton, Dr. C. A. Alington, said that tho motorist warning, 'Drive slowly," was .ipplioablo to English education at tho prcsonl. tiino. Everybody was cnllinp for radical changes, but ho thought l.horo was i,onipi"F IV . I 11 ''" 0 '!" 0 ' 1 of education nn which they had lived for tho past hundred years. Tho way some pcoplo (nlked ol' our politicians, who had dnno (heir host duriiif tho last tliroo yonvs, was most discouraging and disheartening. Schools that taught tho spirit of workinc toKethor and making (ho best nf ono another wore malting a ronl eonlribuliou to their country. As an instance of tho spirit taught in our public schools, bo mid Ibat; only that morning ho mot an old Etonian wlio lind como to lOton to row a friend oyer tho conrso upon which ho won Iho school pulh.npr forty yonm ago (1ml; ,ln,y, Such a tin tir as that could not; happen in any country nthor than England. Ho ilid not know much about, sport in Gorman schools, but; ho could not; imagine two students nl' a German university reluming after forty years to light, 'ovor Iho duel on the spot, upon which thov «pont. their boyhood days, Snoli was the p.plrll I (aught in English schools to-day.