BRITISH EDUCATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 2

BRITISH EDUCATION

DEVELOPMENT OF BROADER BASIS. STIMULUS OF WAR EXPERIENCE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 27. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education. Mr Chuter Edo. speaking at Leeds, said that the grisly test of the Dunkirk beaches and the glorious story of the battle of the skies had proved the essential soundness and toughness of British democracy. These were not the achievements of a class, but of a nation. So wide was the source of contribution, so deep in character was the strain that inspired it. that there could be no question of the justice of the Prime Minister's recent declaration that lhe vast majority of the youth of this country who never had "the advantage of attending public schools have by their skill and prowess won the admiration of the whole world." Hitherto English education hud been too much stratified into social i grades, and had at an early age segregated youths, giving them a narrow class outlook and forcing them to associate almost entirely with those of similar gifts to their own. The secondary school was not free from this limitation. The board intended to further Mr Churchill’s policy of -establishing a state of society where the advantage and privileges which have hitherto been enjoyed only by a few shall be far more widely shared by the men and youth of the nation as a whole.”