Mundreds of thousands of the: have gone back proved a failure is: the it rew membered, is far the most expensive in. Europe. certainly Spend enormous bricks and Duilding the most perfectly equipped schools imaginable. What we get-out of them is another matte would of course be unfair and untrue to tar all the children. with the same brush, But it cannot, unbe denied that considerable umbers of then are terribly ignor= illeinannered and without any se of discipline. In our district we jot probably the cream of London children, but experiences of "many friends—people who T know did their best for the children planted them—were anything but happy, The women were worse, intractable and dirty. T write with all possible restraint. Sweeping assertions are always to be avoided. But the mount of testimony on this subject cannot be ignored, Of course you can hardly expect nice children to come out of slattern-
Ty homes, But what, people are asking, is the use of all the money spent on slum clearance? And what are the schools doing to correct the ideas of the rising generation Perhaps the answer lies in the Tack of personal touch between teachers and pupils. It isa common. place of the schools and universities Of the well-to-do. that the most. Im-Porsant part of education is outside the school. You get this in country church schools, where the teacher usually ives in the school building. and knows all the children and their parents well. T have experience of Such a school and the results are ad-mimble, You do not get it in the national, schools where teachers. live at a distance and. know no more of
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