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THE EDUCATION NIGHTMARE

£1,000-A-YEAR: FATHER'S GREAT

PROBLEMS ON

We all know where Waterloo was won, Beme of us know rather painfully that in that place to-day boy costa his parents £300 a year, says a writer in the Evening Standard. Eton coats now as much as as Oxford or Cambridge grad before the! war, inclusive of his liberties, wines, and general expenses; and so it is with the other public schools. Two boys cost their father £500 a year. It is in the national sense a very important question. Consider its meaning. It means that only the rich can educate their sons, and so we find a new. class of boy in our public schools, while the "gentry class go to the other schools:

These schools prosper because out of the war a strong rich class, has emerged; also. schoolmasters are to-day better paid. But we will avoid complaints. The outstanding fact is that the very people-soldiers, sailors, professional men generally, in short, the old Cromwellian gantry, officials, and the learned class cannot afford to educate their sons in the schools primarily created for them, and every year are likely to be- come less able to do so.

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England is threatened with an educa- tional system that cannot be used by the very people it is intended for.

The high costs do not apply only to public school. The "prep." schools are almost as dear; in some cases more, so. Perhaps, more strange still, girls schools are more costly than boys' schools.

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A good "prep." school charges £210 a' year. At many girls' schools the charges work out at from £190 to £300 a year, for in girls schools everything is an "extra"; thus music, dancing, eurythmics, drawing, gymnasties, even games. The term's bill at a quits ordinary girla" school comes to £76, of £228 per annum. A mat who has three sons at a good seaside boys prep" school told the writer it cost hi £900 a year, without holidays. A *** schools in these seaside places the charges run to £300 a year,

Education has become a nightmare to the professional man on £1,000 or £1,500 a year. Taking the school charges, from "prep." to "Varsity, from the age of eight. to eighteen, the ten years to-day cost a minimum of £2,000, and if the batter schools are used, 3,000. Thus two boys and one girl for the ten years will cost their father £6,000.

What will happen? Clearly, the pro- fessional classes will gradually be squeezed out of the schools (this is happening to- day) and English education will receive a staggering blow.

Many masters know that not a few hundreds of boys to-day are being educated on charity fees, sometimes even gratis. In other cases, a compromise is made. The writer knows of a war widow whose two sons are being educated for nothing.

The type of boy and girl in all these schools rapidly changing. One has only to visit these places to spot the difference They are to-day schools for rich tradesmen. Where will the others go?

Now, the nation will have to consider this, for it strikes a death blow at the schools' system whose proud. boast it has been to train the ruling classes.

INCOMES HAVE CHANGED;

It is indefensible that a country's school should be beyond the means of the very class they are, or should be, run for; that a-man earning, say, £1,000 a year should not be able to give his son the education he enjoyed. Yet that is the position, and

it is certain to grow more difficult.

We are the only country in the world hare education is voluntary and commer cial, and if the system has worked well it was because-

(1) The charges were reasonable; (2) The incomes of professional men were in accordance with their position."

Both factors have changed as the result of war. School fees have gone up enorm- oualy incomes or purchasing power hare depreciated.

Can the commercial system fast in these conditions?

There is no doubt but that the charges in most girls schools are unreasonably high, judged by the standard of education that the nation is entitled to expect. It is ridiculous that a girl of 12, not learning Latin or Greek, should cost £230 a year; and the same applies to most "prep." schools,

There is no control over these, establish menta, financial or educational The education given, judged by Continental standards, is low,

Every term in these places new teachers come and go in weary procession, like the modern servant Eduction Buffers, The child rarely ban the same, teucher any two terms running. Yet every term those schools increase their numbers. In many instances they are ludicrously overcrowded and understaffed. As a girl maid, “Last term all the servants left. This term all the teachers are changed.

It comes to this: Our commercial school system is at stake, and there is only one real remedy Cheap State education.The country which neglects its education to day must decline in the fierce competition around. We have got schools for pintocrats now. We shall soon see the resulta The solution is State democratic education.

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