The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1913. THE EDUCATION STANDARD.
There is evidently a strong movement in the direction of educational reform in England at the present time showing that a certain portion of the people at least are of the same opinion as the Archbishop of York, who said at Sheffield recently that “Until the English people themselves want knowledge, their education will always be imperfect ,and they must be content in large parts of their public life to be governed by Scotsmen.’ A memorial was recently presented to the Prime Minister by a large number of well-known educationalists, urging the Government to undertake at once a comprehensive reform of the national education. They emphasise the fact that large measures of social reform require for their full realisation the compelling power of lofty ideals which only a. national education can inspire and urge that, in order to meet immediate needs, the serious concern of all schools should he the inculcation of those fundamental moral qualities upon which the welfare of th(‘ State depends. Among other things the memorial insists upon adequate provision for education in all grades, thus breaking down, as far as possible social handers. Two points which are particularly emphasised are the raising of tin* teaching profession lo a higher status and the raising of I he school age to fourteen years. At present, it is stated, one child in three leaves school under fourteen, although in some of the more enlightened centres, such as London and Glasgow, this has already heen made the leaving age. As a partial remedy' the memorial advises the creation of continuation schools for tlie purpose of providing educational supervision until the age of 17 years for children not attending secondary schools. Those will be principally for the benefit of the wageearning youth and will not only raise liis educational and moral standard, hut will also do much to abolish that condition of employment bordering on chiicl-slavery—a class of labour that cannot he. abolished too quickly. Here a ora in there arc two point to bo coil'.
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is less marked, being restrained and controlled by the steady routine of school life. The second question is that of the employer. However,’ there would be no difficulty with good, employers in the matter, and the bad ones would, in time, have to toe the J I lino.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 95, 29 April 1913, Page 4
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