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IS THE PUBLIC SCHOOL DOOMED? TALLER GIRLS OF
THE MENACE OF THE BLACK COAT ARMY.
SLOW SUICIDE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS: EDUCATION IN 2000 A.D.
THE NYDER OF FATHERS WHO CAN AFFORD TO SPEND £3,000 ON A BOY'S EDUCATION, WITH THE PROSPECT OF SERING NIY, AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-TWO, OLAD TO ACCEPT THẺ WAGES WHICH TEB COUNTY COUNCILS GUYS TO A WAVENGER, 19 NOT LARGE, AND WILL BECOME. SMALLER.
[BY THE VERY REF. I. A INGE, DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S)
A well-known man of letters them and their Greats by jilting recently asked Д Frenchman,
them." Swede. a Dutchman, an American, Fublic school education is being a Chinaman, and a Japanese: thoroughly reformed, and I could What is the leading interest in not join in the severe criticisma your country? What do your which are passed upon these much people really believe in They all beloved and venerated institutions. answered: Education,"
Their influence tells upon many of If these men were right, we must the new County Conggit schools, expect that all over the world the, which are often presided over by an twentieth century will be a period-Oxford or Cambridge scholar, who of enthusiasm for education, of bold teaches his boys to love their school experiments in education, and of and to play for their side, accord. unstinted publié, expenditure oning to the best public school education Education is an essen- tradition. tial part of the great experiment to which we are committed-thas of extending civilisation right through the population, instead of restrict ing the higher culture to a small class. Equality of opportunity, and a career open to the talects, are as far as possible to be secured to all In the future we are to bave to more mule, inglorious Hiltons. and no potential Darwins condemn ed to a local reputation as colles- tory of butterflies.
TO-DAY.
AVERAGE GAIN OF TWO. INCHES IN 20 YEARS,
GAMALKALING
AND STILL GROWING.
LONDONERS GETTING
FAIRER.
The modern English girl is grow- ing taller, Londoners are becoming fairer while both men and women, are developing longer and gar- rower heads.
These and many other interesting points predicting a new race were brought out by Mr. F. G. Parsons,, F.R.C.S., Professor of Anatomy at the University of London, in his presidential address on "The Eng- ishman of the Future" to the An- thropology section of the British Association.
The girl of 1997 "is two inches taller than her sister of 1007, id
A Disastrous Expedient. the professor. Twenty years ago Bat the question is whether the he measured the height of 130. economic stress and the competition students of the School of Medicine of State education will not destroy for Women and found their the public schools. They will fight average to be st. 3in. Ten years desperately for their lives, but I later their successor at the school fear that only a few of them will had put up the height average by be left at the end of the century. more than an inch There are no signs of this decay at
London Hospital Nurses. Present. All the great schools, and new foundations like Stowe, are ful to overflowing. But I do not think sons, "I have measured 150 nurses "This year," said Professor Par that this will last long. The cum and
massage students at ber of fathers who can afford to Thomas's Hospital, and.. spend £1,000 os s boy's education, average height was 5ft. 4.0in. with the prospect of seeing him, at cept the wages, which our county of practically two inches, but the the age of twenty-two, glad to de-had been a gain in average height In twenty years, therefore, there
their
It is a fine idea; but it will raise many problems. We do not want an educated proletariat, a crowd of starving clerks, artists, penmen, and secretaries. We do not want to take the ablest sons of the work- ing men and put them all into black councils give to a scavenger, ja mal position was different in regard to i
ecats. This is in fact what we are
young.
large, and will become smaller.
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doing with our system of subsidies tained by an expedient which is
At present the system is main and acholarships restricted to the
For the past twenty years his ex male students at St. Thomas's Hos sons of poor parents The Jearned nationally disastrous. If we professions (except the Church) are "Who's Who," and count the aver average height of 5 sin. It was or twenty pages of pital, he said, had maintained on in consequence overcrowded, the! men in black coats compete for ae families of those who are suc noteworthy that while the men's cessful enough bs included in average had not varied, the girls, starvation pittance; and are much worse off than the skilled labourer. that Debrett of the middle class," of precisely the same class, should Our parlour Bolshevists often come family is one ser and one daughter.also give uro sign that their maxi. see that the average have gained, two inches, and should from this class, and, unfortunately. This limitation of families, which mum average had been reached. many of them are teachers of the amounts to the slow suicide of a As far as heredity goes, 017 whole class (three or four children Anglo-Saxon forbears showed quite England's Two Nations."
are necessary if the numbers are to a small difference between Education ought to be partly an he kept up) is mainly the result of heights of the sexes, and, it might apprenticeship for what boya and the coormous expense of "a gen-be that the Englishwoman of the girls are to do afterwards. Per-tleman's education." The conse-future would reach st. 6in. or bit.
aps in the future this will be re- quences, in the opinion, of all in. It was unlikely that the two. cognised. At present domestic egenists, are deplorable. Not only sexes would ever be equal in height, economy, down
to the humblest, are the good upper and riddle class the woman paying for her well- deinils, is much better taught in families the backbone of the nation, known earlier maturity by expensive girls schools than to and the main source of its great shortening of the time allotted to those who will be the wives of tness, but in each generation the
growth. working men or domestic kervants. most brilliant members of the work-j Those who have had a pubile for class make their way into the
Results Of Better Feeding. school and "university education class which is now voluntarily. But these figures, pointed out the may be tempted to give too much sterilising itself. Our present so- professor, applied to those who had importance to the future of those cial order skims off the cream in benefited by better hygiene and institutions, for which, "as a rule, each generation and throws it away. nutrition, and it was not possible they cherish an almost romantic Much as I should regret to see to say as exactly the average height" affection. But the question is really our public schools shut up, I think of the modern Englishwoman. of national importance.
that when almost all parenta are The men of the labouring and Nothing has contributed so much driven to take advantage of the exagricultural classes in the Chilterns to create "two nations" in Eng-cellent State schools which will soon averaged 5ft. Gin, and the mixed innd as the tradition of a gentle-be available in every large town classes of a North Kent doctor's man's education. But the distinc- this motive for race-suicide will practice were 5ft. ., but it was tion is not all. between the rich "and | disappear. The heaviest burden not known how much the stunted the poor, as Disraeli declared in will he lifted from the shoulders of millions in the Midland manufac- "Sybil" It is a rapidly disap- the poor profesional man, who will turing towns and the mass of un- pearing social cleavage, peculiar to also usually prefer one of the new employed and unemployable hu this country, which ran across the universities, which have no residen-manity in the East End of London middle of the bourgeois class. On tial colleges, and are about 50 per would pull this figure down. the upper side of the line were cent, cheaper, tham Oxford and those who had received a classical | education, which, as Dean Gaisford said in the university pulpit, "cot only leads to positions of siderable emolument, but entitles those who have received it to look down upon the vulgar herd.
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There was also the question of
A trained observer, had
space for the eubjects of education. If present conditions. persisted, Here psychology may be expected the Englishman of the future was La gween away the remains of making for an average height of This precious education was
traditional folly. Instead of mak" 5ft. Din. legacy of the Renaissance, and of ag a child do whatever he most dis the Middle Ages, and is a wonder- ikes, and whipping him whenever
Whether there was any advantage ful monument of stolid Conser outraged nature rebels, we shall vatism. To show reverence for the consider his healthy tastes, and in a nation's individuals reaching adapt ourselves to them. What a very high average of stature he Greeks, who knew no language but does the child like doing? To talk was not considering: great mental their own, English boys were tanght, not their own language, to draw, paint and model; to dance panded great bodily size, and very and listen; to act (dramatically); ability, after all. seldom accom- but ancient Greek. In recognition of the practical ability of the and sing: to know the why of big and muscular men were not Romana, who believed in eloquence; hands. Aristotle was a good pay ing, as the slim and wiry.
things; to make things with his such good lives, medically aponk- they studied, not Chatham and Burke, but Cicero. To make them itation" is the foundation of the rational interest in hygiene which chologist when he said that im- As a result of the steady and ve their country, they learned by heart, not the legends of King arts. Further, from eight to six-had grown up during the past fifty colour. Arthur and Shakespeare's his teen is the time to learn by heart; years, the children of succeeding said that she could not and in the torical plays, but
when a young man goes to the uni generations had been brought up the patriotic literature of the ancient Hebrews.versity, the less he crams for and trained a little differently and slums of Liverpool any series of
a little more wisely than those of fair children with which ́ to The city they were never to forget examination the better. was not London, but Jerusalem. We may expect that secondary the generation, which went" before. trast the dark.
education will have two branches-
"How seldom nowadays does one officer had found that most of Lon- humanism and dieroe. The former see in London the poor half-starved, don's children had dark eyes. will include the classical master bodies of children to common thirty Professor Parsons, however, pieces, read mainly in. trans years ago, shivering, coatless and showed from statistics he had pic lations; but it will be based mainly bootless in the depth of winter: pared in comparison with some on English literature.
their miserable little limbs maimed made by Beddoe 67 years ago that What about religious education? by rickets; their eyelids red with Londoners are becoming pot darker Religion is caught rather than ophthalmia? There are fast becom- but fairer, praticularly in the this system was the plentiful use taught: I do not thire the "re-ing things of the past. Indeed, the hair; und with regard to the eyes: of the birch or cane, with the cult ligious son" does much good. modern medical student thinks 66 per cent. have light eyes and of athletics, of which the modernist But most assuredly the schools himself lucky if he sees a single 34 per cent dark. Euripides, complained in almost the ought to aim at making their pupilsense of rickets, about, which his same words as Rudyard Kipling good Christians. The main obstacle text-books have so much to Ety."ing too. The results, however, were quite comes from two fanatical sects, the
Cramming And The One. The method of teaching was to cram down the boys' throats gob bets of crude information, to be presently disgorged in the same state at the next examination. The
only really classical thing about
con-
And a medical
The shape of the head is chang-|
"Some of the charac- good. It is a consoling thought Roman Catholics and the Com- Bonnier Boys And Girls. teristics of the modern English- " do. not that with all our pains we cannot munists, who wish to dye the chil-In the secondary schools, partiman," he commented, do our children much harm," dren's minds indelibly with their cularly in the healthier districts seem to be bereditary at all We University education has been a own colour, turning them into such as Plumstead and Eltham, the seem to be building up a new kind continuation of the public schools. finished little bigots. If religion is physical beauty and perfect health of man. with even alacker discipline and banished from education it will be of the boys and girls contrast-very Sir Boyd Dawkins attributed the less social tyranny. The sporting the fault of these comparatively favourably with anything that our improvement in women, demonstrat pass man is now being eliminated of teaching a religion which shall most expensive public schools have pd by Professor Parsons to the fact from most colleges, which is a good be no religion in particular. It is to show. Under the cloak of educa that girls are getting into, the thing; but there are complaints at almost like talking in a tongue tion. London at least is doing the Gelds, exercising, healthily. Oxford of the havoc wrought by the which is no language in particular: utmost to change a C3 into an Al share a fuller life, instead undergraductie "She spoils the This is a problem for the future-population."
being reserved more or less for men's Mods by getting engaged to Evening Standardi.
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