PROGRESS MADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 4, 6 January 1938, Page 7

PROGRESS MADE.

BRITISH EDUCATION

Real Fruits of Democracy

Reaped.

MUST LOOK TO SCHOOLS

British Official Wireless.

(Received 12.30 p.m.)

RUGBY, January 5.

Mr. Kenneth Lindsay, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Educa*u' n ' Jr 11 his presidential address to the North of England Education Lonference at Scarborough, referred to the progress made in urban and rural districts with the reorganisation of schools and the increased expenditure on education during the last year.

Plans for further work, estimated to cost £13,000,000, were now in an advanced stage of consideration.

Mr. Lindsay said the real fruits of democracy reaped from its educational expenditure—kindness, tolerance, vitality and appreciation of beauty—did not yield to statistical measurement and often went unrecognised. Tolerance and truthful dealing between people was still a matter, he said, and care for the weak and oppressed still a virtue.

'If Britain stanits for these things in the world —and nothing could be less aggressive—it is to the schools that we must look for their preservation," he said.