BRITAIN'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Sir,-The professors write to Nature to say, in effect, "Down with the Public Schools!" For that is what their demand amounts to, At first blush their demand is impressive. Are they not professors? Yet is not a professor one whose head bulks so much more largely than what supports it? Like an inverted pyramid? But when he falls, like Lucifer — or President Wilson — it is never to rise again. The professors’ demand is one for standardisation of education, for the ease and benefit of post-secondary educa-tions-professors, to wit. But standardisation has proved a two-edged weapon even in industry and manufacture, And more dangerous would it be in education, where variety is the spice of life. Without wearing the old school tie too vigorously, one may confidently declare that the Public Schools integrate the spirit of England far more effectively than does the ukase of a Commisar or the will of any millionaire. After all, the Public Schools derive from a distant past, when the spirit of service-public, religious or academicwas held high. Whereas the State school stems from the age of the "rights of man." Which makes a difference. (See Bishop Headlan’s remarks in your pre- | vious issue).
PRIVATE N.Z.
(Christchurch),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 188, 29 January 1943, Page 3
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204BRITAIN'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 188, 29 January 1943, Page 3
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