ARE BOYS BETTER FOR A WASH?

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20499, 18 March 1932, Page 4

ARE BOYS BETTER FOR A WASH?

ETON HEAD'S DOUBTS. Most English people are -very doubtful- whether all the reforms and changes in education have made them very much wiser than they were before, declared Dr. C. A. Alington, the headmaster of Eton, in addressing, as' its president, the Eton, Slough, and Windsor branch of the Workers' Educational Association at Eton College last month. For instance, it was very difficult to maintain that boys were very much healthier than in the days when they knew nothing about sanitation and never washed. There were also, said Dr. Alington, very few things ,which they could say. with certainty everybody ought to know. He continued : . ''Everyoiic should write intelligibly and should be able., to express himself in his own .'language in a way intelligible in conversation with everyone else. He must be able to subtract and divide and multiply in a reasonable way, or he would be a nuisance to himself and others. I think you must let people follow - their own . taste a good deal more ift our education. In my profession" we try to> teach all in the same way, as if they were going to be scholaj-s. whereas 70, 80, or ift) per cent, are not.: We give them the same number-of.'subjects, and I <lo not think it is fair.'";■ The things .people learned between 10 and 18, Tie said, were those they never forgot.