The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915. EDUCATING RECRUITS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 54, 6 March 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915. EDUCATING RECRUITS.

Britain does not neglect the education of her soldiers in training, and when the last mails left it was thought that the Board of Education’s circular at least went some way towards meeting the demand that soldiers in' camp should he given facilities fori making an educational use of their leisure. The Board offers to subsidise! Local Education Authorities which set up classes for soldiers in history, geography, topography, first aid, telephony and telegraphy, foreign languages, field cookery, and, in fact, in any other useful and interesting subject. This programme is held to be admirably comprehensive, but critics] of it point out that there are two formidable obstacles in the way of its be-! ing carried out —accommodation and finance. Soldiers cannot be taught un-j Joss there are suitable buildings to, teach them in, but at many large camps there are none. r lhe provision of accommodation is clearly the business of the War Office, which ought not to rest content with the necessar-j ily inadequate assistance of private enterprise. Even more serious a difficulty is the decision of the Board to, pay no more than two-thirds the costj of these classes. Ihe remaining third can only come from philanthropists or the local authority, but the matter had not been adjusted when the last mails loft.