EFFECT OF EDUCATION

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1931, Page 2

EFFECT OF EDUCATION

MANY FAR-RE A CHIN O SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES.

All XISTER’S BPEK CH

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, July 17

Speaking to the education vote, which lie introduced in the Hafts© of Commons, Mr H. B. Lees-Smith, President of the Board of Education, said that he was asking for a little more than £14,000,000 an increase on last year’s vote oi about £3,000,000. 4 ,About 10 per cent, of the general population were in grant-earning secondary schools, he sir.d, the proportion being about four times as great as twenty-five year’s ago. Th's was having far-reaching social consequences. One was' the increasing invasion of the monopoly which the middle class and public schools had hitherto had of tb higher professional and administrative positions, Referring to the results of the' system of State, scholarship for secondary school children to the universities, he said that the records of the past eleven years showed that '52 per cent, of the men obtained first-class honours, and 28 per cent, of the women. Reviewing the work of the schools, the Minister said that he was quite convinced that within twenty yeaiß they would have produced. ft new and remarkable national type—healthy, practical,' self-reliant and responsible, more capable than any previous gem era'tion and better equipped-to meet the ’tremendous problems confronting the next generation.