THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The public school system was defended by Sir Percy Nunn, director of the. Institute of Education, London University, in his presidential address to the International Conference of the New Education Fellowship, at Chelten ham, recently. Speaking of “ irreverent jests ” about the public schools, ho said: “ I am not sure that the public school does not remain the most important contribution England has made to education. “ The public school system still presents to the world features from which wo can all learn; an intellectual rectitude, a severity of aim, and, above all, that stress upon character that we attach so much importance to in this country—a belief that a school ought to turn out pupils with a strong sense of public and private duty, and a strong inclination to public service, and with perhaps a due sense of the importance of the minor morals which we call good breeding and manners.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 2
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153THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 2
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