There is jubilation among the London Radicals lay. The School Board election ought not to be mixed up with party tities, but it undoubtedly is to a very jary extent. And party politics enter into the question more than usually this time on account of the Education Act of last Session. Twelve years ayo, when Mr. Diggle first succeeded in getting a majority on the London School Board, the terms "Moderato" and "Progressive" were unknown as party names. These names came into being with the County Councils, and thence have spread to the School Boards. But the old names wore. much more accurate. Educationslists throughout the country ate still really divided into the two old camps—those who would make religious dogma the ground-work of all education and those who believe that broadly speaking national education should should be left: to the churches. the be secular and the teaching of dogma
Conservative, Party have al leant to the dogma side, and by their act of last session, and. still more by' the abortive Education Bill of the previous session they have identified themselves afresh with the Denominationalists or Moderates."
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