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CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS IN EDUCATION,
[ST DR. JOHAN NAIRN, HEADMASTER OF MERCHANT TAYLOR'S SCHOOL.]
One among the many disquieting pheno. mena in our social life of to-day is the growth of clase-hostility. Many of the self-appointed social apostles preach class-consciousness as a defaite and fundamental doctrine.
What part is our elaborate educational system playing in this matter of cinas bostility Our system is unique: there is nothing like our English public schools, and our older Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, in the whole world. We are proud of it we admit that others may
PRISON FOR A "DON JUAN.**
CAREER OF TRIPLE BIGAMIST.
You are a regular Don Juan." You have quined woman after woman and, in Amy judgment women are much more valuable than goods and chattels, Tun will go to a place where your egoism will he curbed and where you will be forcibly made an altruiat.
With this comment Sir Ernest Wild, the Recorder, passed sentence of three years' penal servitude at the Old Bailey. on Jean Stuart Wynne Stuart Wynne (38), traveller, who pleaded guilty to bigamously marrying Miss Violet Baker.
WORKED AS MINER. Detective sergeant Mander stated that be more efficient. that others "iscaleate Wynne, whose real name was Williams, harder work, that others may make in was a native of Tredegar, and was legally tellectual achievement their chief goal.married at Merthyr in 1911 while work But we on our side claim that our publicing as a miner. He left his wife after school educated young men have spune- two fears and she was compelled to thing-a stamp, favour, that no others obtain parish relief for herself and two can possess which out-weighs any fancied children. advantages claimed by French or Ger mans or Americans. The ideal of public school education with us is a tradition, nay, more, a ereed which it were blas phemous to question.
In 1018 he married" Ellen Quipps, a chambermaid at a Bournemouth hotel, but left her after four months. In 1920 he was sentenced to three months' hard labour for bigamy with Miss Quipps.
Going to Manchester in 1923 he took the name of Wynne, and went through a form of marriage with Miss Shorrocks the following year. He lived with her until 1925. And there were two children.
Tet, after all, this tradition is of no great antiquity. Down to the middle of the eighteenth century there is no sign of this belief. The most ancient and aristocratic of our schools were founded to ensure a liberal education to poor Under the name of Captain Peter scholars. It is to them, and not to the Ward he was "married" at Kilburn to highly placed and wealthy who mainly Miss Violent Baker. With £400 borrow- use them, that our ancient foundations ed from her father he bought a motor pwe their being. Eton was founded to car. He joined the Neasden Golf Club provide education for poor grammar and posed to the members as a wealthy scholars. Harrow was founded by a worthy tradesman to educate 30 poor boys of the parish," though at the end of his life he added that as many for cigners (that is, boys from other con- parishes) might be taken as venient. But presumably the idea was that even the foreigners should be poor. Winchester again was founded to educate 70 scholars, preference being given to the poor,
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Detective Mander added that nt Man- chester Wyre obtained a motor car en the hire purchase system and sold it. Witness said he had put the facts before the Chief Constable at Manchester, who wanted this case dealt with at Man- chester..
The Recorder: The Chief Constable should read the reports of the Court of Criminal Appeal. Their view and miac is that the right thing for a Judge-to do is to deal with everything known against the man, so that he can come out of prison with a clean sheet.
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In every case the obvious idea of the founder, was to help poor scholars and, to facilitate a mingling of all ranks for educational purposes. This principle is implicit or expressed in the foundation-speech from the dock, that I happen to charters of all our endowed schools.
Down to the eighteenth century the local magnates and professional men in any country neighbourhood sent their sons to the local grammar-school, where they mixed with the sons of tradesmen farmers and so on, presumably to their mutual advontage.
SYMPATHY STIRRED, "The trouble is," said Wynne in a
meet women with some tragedy in their lives, and they appeal to my sympathy, I try to cheer them up, and they mistake it for affection. I am sorry for what I have done. I am British to the backbone, and any punishment you mete out is nothing to what I suffer from my con- Class-consciousness, science.
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which means clasa-hostility, is not likelyfy affection for Miss Baker is the ra furish so vigorously where the boys on white thing in my life. I am a man have shared school hi and cutdoor who cannot understand myself, and a sports together. The segregation of the present day, or the contrary, is the thing most likely to embitter in.
man who cannot do that has not much chance in life I have nothing to any against any of the women. They were good and affectionate women.
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Bat to-day we have got right away -from-this-idea of mixing. The schools. are now the chief strongholds of social exclusiveness and nurseries of snobbish
lue young people themselves ap longer ness. This tendency is greatly increased by the prevalence of sport as one of the get the invaluable education which mein chief ingredients in the olla podrida of bers of large families mutually provide present day education Proficiency in for each other. There is no spacious life sport alone confers prestige; intellectual now-a-days for the children. The coun- distinction by itself is despised Now try houses, where children enjoyed a non-professional sport is exceedingly any rough-and-tumble through early costly. It is governed by sumptuary laws years in a sunbby but roomy home with of the most rigid. Perfection of tools wig gardens or grounds, where they could and outfit is absolutely obligatory. This ask their trends to spend the holidays, have mostly been placed on the market. inevitably tends to increase the class ex-
We can see the boards To be Sold- clusiveness which has grown up in the schools. It should. be remembered that suitable for Senool,or other last.tution "' snobbishness is a marked characteristic scattered all over the countryside. cf the young and the immature, whose shibboleths are rigidly enforced. Toler- ance is only attained later in life. Girls' Schools Mistake..
When the movement for the higher edu- cation of women took place the girls schools were founded on entirely imita tive listes: Uncritically the pioneer women copied the system in vogue for boys, with all its defects. It is hard to see how or when the education of girls will ever shake off the results of this initial folly,"
Children are sent away at nine 378 of age, or even younger, te preparatory schools where they undertake to start training and polishing the child into the "mould acceptable at the particular public
school his parents favour.
There is no room for children in London flat, so that often a house taken at the seaside or in the country during the holidays is all a child has of" home." With the growth of this Fashion all the older boarding-schools are crowded to overflowing-often, a boy's name bas to
be entered as soon as he is born to ensure a place. They all have huge waiting- lists, and new schools, such as Stowe, SEME system, are perpetuating the equally crowded in the space of three or four years. 1s the training-the real education-worth all this sacrifice, all this effort on the part of the elders The Eesults.
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As certain schools grew in fashionable esteem and attracted an ever-increasing number of pupils, another change took place; that is the change from the system of daily scholars who lived in their own homes and went every day to the school for instruction, to the system of the boarding school. The neighbourhood alone no longer provided the majority of
We see the results-small families, dis the scholars. In order to cope with the contented and rebellious children, who numbers of pupils from all over the coun- try who desired to come to Eton or other stike the narrowness of life which the schools, our elaborate boarding-school money sacrifices made by the parents en- system, with its separate houses, its arti-ures on them; who evince an inevitable ficially-organized and self-centred life, gradually came into being.
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clinging to the artificialities of life, since their cuucation has tended to set so much atore upon conditions and amusements Now the system i accepted and uni-
which necessitate large expenditure; lack versally glorified throughout the country,
of initiative, engendered by the conven- Roughly speaking, every parent who is tional nature of their training; absence in a position to do so and many who of real sympathy with young men and are not-deemis it absolutely necessary to send his boys-and-now-a-daya giris, too young women who have not had their to schools with great-and-fashionable expensive and stereotyped education, and a habit of contempt for them, real and names-boarding schools. Otherwise they deep, if not actually expressed-class con feel that their children will be handicap sciousness, in short, in its worst formi.. ded in the game of life. The question is The pride and affection that, a not "Which school will most fit him to fecis for his old school is a beautiful thing play a worthy part in after life" but in itself, but it has its dangera Any **Which school will give him most pres- thing which tends to set men apart m tige. It is not the metal but the ball groups surrounded by a ring-fence over mark which counts surely the quintes which they can hardly manage to see their Bence of snobbishness..
fellow-men, let alone mix with them, is And what sacrifices are made on this always undesirable and to-day high dan unworthy altari Middle and upper class gerous, parents no longer dare to have large The class-barriers which wo their families because it is impossible to face elders, are continually striving to break the prospect of paying a sum of £300 a down, so as to awaken men to the con- year- very ordinary estimate for sciousness of the boad of their common several children in these days of poverty humanity, we are steadily building up and high taxation. So we get the birth again by our system of public-school rate steadily falling among those classes education. The first question a young who should be the nation's strength. The man asks about another is "What school professional and administrative classes was be at!" And if the answer is not are dwindling numerically, till we are one of the famous and fashionable schools, close upon the danger-point. It becomes a barrier is automatically raised which is increasingly difficult to find enough of all barriers the hardest to break down, young merr to undertake the adminis because the staff of which it is built. is trative work of Empire.
youthful prejudice, irrational and invin- cible.Evening Standard, on next column)
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