SOON TO VANISH

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1932, Page 5

SOON TO VANISH

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

DEAN INGE'S ESTIMATE

"Kdo not see how the great public schools can survive for more than one generation more." ■ This forecast was made by Dean. Inge when discussing the possible decline of publie'sohoolsr 'Wie speech was made at the prize distribution ceremony at Whitgift School, Croydon, says the "Daily Mail." ■;; The *lfu;tu.re..>f; education and of the country, he' said,"depended a great deal oii "thiS '"gr-t«a:(raay-scln)ols and"on tire new-secondary : .Bchools. ,' . .. t "I say.that for rather a sorrowful reason," he went on. "I am afraid that the great public, schools, with their necessarily fees, will bo in"! very gieitfi'tfd^Jl^f in the next fif^y: years. ■;^he,,^afti2ießwliich used io bu^ port thpse'-sishbojS are being deliberately taxed (JUfciflfrJe-xißtenee." " .: 'h'S ': Dr. (Gl^riliN'orwood, headmaster: J.«).f Harro*.i3|sSo6l, -wMch was founded' 3£o' years agq-.i(iid in /which there are noiyabout 650'^oys wfiose school and boars ing-hou^S^ees .'average' ■■tL^yeS.t apart fjronfc "exfras," said to'a "Daily Mail" T.epotterf.i'later: . /■'■ . "The public"siShools: will still be here, fifty years^hence/,r~ ; -■_ '.;;■■■. ■- ' ""''*'•• l"lXi^t^^jJ^^cntT^^aX they will be conducte^-^n^^fsysteni/'moditfedrfrqm the present: v Thiere is a;pp'ssibility "that some will :b'ec6me*State;ai,ded or more. absorbedi'rin^he^Stat.e.sxsteni."