1939-08-31 — Page 41

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 1, 1939.

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PLAN TO FOIL "SNOB" SCHOOLS IDEA

PLAN TO KILL THE IDEA that secondary schools have a "higher status" than senior schools, is suggested in the report of the Select Committee on Estimates.

It suggests that elementary and higher (including sec- ondary school) education should be handled by one autho- rity, not two, as at present.

"Educational opinion now favours

a break at the age of eleven, at which age children proceed either to senior schools, which are in the province of elementary education, or to secondary schools," says the report.

"The idea that the secondary school is of higher status than the senior school, which so often determines the choice of school at eleven, to the de- triment of the education of the chil- dren, is never likely to be dissipated so long as the control of the two types of school is in the hands of different authorities."

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