The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1913. EDUCATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 21 May 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1913. EDUCATION.

Eord Haldane recently said h<j looked to education to provide the material out of which Britain could produce her birr men. He went on to say thai ho had respect and some apprehension of the progress the. French and the Germans were making in aerial science, lint lie had far less apprehension about that than he had about the progress they were making in educational science. Foreign nations "urc making advances in a way that seemed to be a menace to Britain. Lord Haldane also referred to the work being done by Dr. Kerschensteiner at Munich in regard to compulsory continuation schools, and how it had got the active sympathy ol employers because they found their apprentices keener at their work' because of the instruction. Ho said that as a Government they were behind, and in these days of science and of organisation of capital, of international competition for the first : place, how was England going to keep her position except by organisation, by science and by training her people. But that was not enough. In order to get the materia! out of which they could produce their big men, they must not coniine the training to the | well-to-do. They had got to raise the general educational level of the country.