PROGRESS IN BRITAIN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20931, 10 January 1938, Page 11

PROGRESS IN BRITAIN

REORGANISATION OF EDUCATION *_ British Official Wireless RUGBY, January 5. Mr Kenneth Lindsay, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, in his presidential address to the North of England Education Conference at Scarborough, referred to the progress that had been made in urban and rural districts with the reorganisation of schools and the increased expenditure on education during last year. Plans for further work estimated at £13,000,000 were now in an advanced stage of consideration. Mr Lindsay said that the real fruits democracy reaped from its educational expenditure—kindness, tolerance, vitality and appreciation of beauty—did not yield to statistical measurement and often went unrecognised. “Tolerance and truthful dealing between people still matter,” he said. “And care for the weak and oppressed was still a virtue. If Great Britain stands for the things in the world—and nothing could be less aggressive—it is to the schools that we must look for their preservation.”