London, July 18.
More than 200. secondary school teachers, representing 90,000 of their fellows in 40 countries, wera assembling to-day for an international congress under the patronage of King George.
The United States has sent Mis: Bess Goodykoontz, assistant Federal Commissioner of Education k High School Teachers' Asso-.- ciation.
Delegates from a number: of South American nations as well as from Canada have crossed the Atlantic for the meeting.
This session, the " fourteenth annual congress of the International Federation' of Associations [Secondary Teachers, is being held for the purpose of discussing, those problems which are common to the secondary schools of all nations.
Promotion of international under-major function of the gathering. is realised that second teachers, of all educa louties, come into closest contact with the rising generation of every country, and can therefore have a profound influence in creating an attitude of international sympathy in their charges.
The agenda for the congress is as follows:
1, Out-of-school activities and their place in, secon school Jorganisation. 'The British school systems, it is felt, have many Valuable examples to contribute in this field, 2 Th ional training of the' secondary cehool teacher, Report on improvements which have taken place during the school ear 1931-2 in secondary school buildings and equipment from the points "of view of teaching, aesthetics, and hygiene, 4. The relations between the International Federation of Aseotions of Secondary Teachers and ier international associations.
On the Honorary Committee are many, prominent, Britons, including the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, the Lord Mayor of London, the President of the Board, of Education, the Earl of Derby, Vis jgount Burnham, and many of!
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