Mr. H, G. Wells was allowed to hold forth on the subject of education. He condemned the conservatism of teachers, urging them to think seriously whether they were "trying to pickle an old world or to create 9 new one." He was amazed to find how few teachers appeared ever to have thought of "giving the future citizen a picture of the world into which he has to go." Teachers whom he asked about this replied that their business was teaching. They might have added that they were not prophets, and consequently had no idea of the "brave new world" which each rising generation obstinately maps out for itself, regardless of its seniors' warnings.
Meanwhile the Moslem community was marching through London to picket Mr. Wells's house until he recants and apologizes for the rude things he has been writing about Mohammed and the Koran. I saw the procession streaming along the Embankment; this meant a long walk, as Mr. Wells lives in Regent's Park; but no demonstration that considers "itself anything can neglect. the Embankment.
As Mr. Wells was in Cambridge, the picketing was rather like the "ragging" of an unpopular undergraduate's rooms at a university, But nó doubt it relieved, the demon-strafers' feelings, and Mr. Wells will keep away till they have cooled down while the police protect his property from actual ragging.
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