BRITAIN'S SALVATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 August 1931, Page 5

BRITAIN'S SALVATION

IN TIME OF GREAT CRISIS

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RUGBY. Ist August. Teachers from, twenty countries .are attending the City of London vacation course in education.

Addressing students yesterday on the public system of education in Britain, MV IT. A. L. Fisher, a former president of the Board of Education and warden of New College, Oxford, said that, speaking frankly, lie thought there had never been a time in the history of the country in which the population had been better fed, betted clothed, better housed, better amused, or better educated than the present. The country, ho said, had gone through a great international crisis—one of the most critical and most perilous epochs in the world’s history —with far less loss than any other country in the heart of the struggle. Yet- Britain had not sacrificed her 'middle class nor had she repudiated her debts, and there had been no severe distress.

He thought that Britain had been able to do this by reason of the fact that her Governments had had to deal with civilised people, and, if asked why and how British people were civilised, he would say that it was very largely by reason of Britain’s public system of education.