THE SCHOOL-50 YEARS’ HENCE

Evening Star, Issue 20257, 19 August 1929, Page 11

THE SCHOOL-50 YEARS’ HENCE

“I think that as means ol' transport improve, and -as the housing problem finds its solution increasingly in the garden suburb, tho tendency of the next half century will be to build more and more day schools in tho country in the midst of 30-acre playing fields, the ideal set up by tho British Board of Education for schools of SOU people. Tho influence of tho country, bo it mountain, moor, or river, oi mere meadow land, should he within the reach of all British children,” said Miss Lucy A. Lowe, head mistress of Leeds Girls’ High School, in an address reported in the ‘ Yorkshire*' Post.’ “ I see, too, buildings of a simpler, perhaps even of a less permanent structure, of one or at mast of two storeys, with unrestricted provision of light ami air, and far more space than hitherto for tho individual development of head and hand—libraries, art rooms, craft rooms, rooms for music and drama, will grow to he more important than class rooms, I believe, and I should not be surprised if, fifty years hence, the item of desks, as wo know them, disappears from the estimates for the furniture of a new school.

“But what of the living element without which tho most beautiful of schools situated in the most spacious of playing holds , is the mere outside of the platter “I suggest that with the broadening of a curriculum and of an examination system in which academic, aesthetic, practical, and physical subjects have their true place, it may not bo unusual to find the head mistress of a large girls’ secondary school a. specialist in art or in music, in domestic science, or in physical cußure—no super-special-ist, but one whose genera! education is such that she can keep in close touch with those interests which are in other branches of study than her own.”