SCHOOL AGE BILL IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
•“ WILL REMOVE BARRIER KEEPING WORKERS DOWN" (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received February 18, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, February 17. In the House of Lords Lord Ponsonby, in moving the second reading of th£ School Age Bill, described it as a small step forward on the educational ladder and an attempt to break down the barrier which for many generations had been purposely preserved in order to keep th workrs in subjetion through ignorance. (Cries of “ No. Withdraw.”) He did not believe that the Opposition was really opposed to the principle of raising the school age. “ The expansion of education has produced the Labour Party, that is why you hesitate to carry it further,” he said. —-.--A Lord Hoilsham, in moving the tion of the Bill, said that his only motive was stated ii% Mr Snowden’s House of Commons declaration that however desirable reforms might be the country could not at present afford them.
The Archbishop of York regretted that Lord Hailsham had taken the lead “from the rising hope of the stern, unbending Tories, who was at present Chancellor of the Exchequer.”’ The main principle of the Bill was the raising of the school age. If they rejected the Bill it would be inferred that the Lords were opposed to that principle. “By the age of fourteen people have begun to read, but the cultivation of taste has not begun. It is true that the greatest social and political peril is the cheap newspaper, but the root thereof is the limited education of the people. If they had education they could not, and if they had more they would not, read them. As it is we condemn them to be the victims of such an influence.”
The Bishop of London, in supporting the Bill, claimed that the Anglican Church had been the pioneers of education in England for centuries. At present churchmen were paying £IO,OOO weekly for it. The people must be educated. The debate was adjourned.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 41, 18 February 1931, Page 7
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