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FEBRUARY

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NOTES OF THE DAY WHY DO WE SEND OUR The Very Idea!.

COLLECTIVE EFFORT CHILDREN GO TO SCHOOL?

Beftain's Justification for ven- turing far in macting Germany's claims to equality of rights In armaments lost nothing in the

A HEADMASTERS SYMPOSIUM

CORRESPONDENCE

By Eddie Kelly, the Answer,

swing of the debate In the House HE whole question of curri-1 The question is, "What use is thisWVER since we started

of Commons. As Sir John Simon emphasised It is not put forward as the ideal solution Utopian answer to the problem-but is presented in spirit of realism It is an effort to bolster up the ponce structure of the world, to provent a race in armaments with the heavy budgetary burdens that would involve. It offers scope for a collective effort to remove

a menace.

PIECE-MEAL PROGRAMME

Admittedly, it offers nothing better than pleco-meal peace making, but unfortunately

sential is international co-opera-

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culum of our State schools for pupils above the age of eloven Mr. Wayne therefore wants all months ago we have been and particularly with reference to his "science" boya to bo sam preserving the numerous secondary schools-is now being marians, and his "Arts" boys to investigated by a Committee of the know something of the power of letters we Board of Education, presided over science. This catholicity repre- from our admirers.

sonta an attempt to stop the by Sir Henry Hadow.

bigotry of the extremo specialist.

I have had the opportunity of discussing with loading London headmasters of secondary schools their ideals of a curriculum suit able to modern needs

Mr. Jenkyn Thomas, Headmaster Downs Secondary

have received

Occasionally, when we feel in the mood, we retrieve one

We now have these letters The English secondary schools try for steadiness, a sense of pro--both of them-tied up with portion and alertness. Their cur

has blue ribbon. Of course, we riculum is not narrow. It

want you to understand that Training for industry and voca- room, for cuts, tional guidanco have long been

we receive far more letters popular..slogans in the school-

than this. Every day, coolies world, but the shadow of the La bour Exchange has forced a new of Hackney 19

erducation for leisure School, and President of the In- stagger from the post office

The menace of unemployment corporated Association of Head-

and masters, suggests that whereas the to our desk, and dump bas- is causing educationlats parents to wonder whether the school curriculum might be cap ketsful straight into the schools are giving the right kind able of improvement, he does not

envisage any root and branch waste paper basket. of training

Should the schools aim at train changes-only minor adjustments Ing the child to earn a livelihood, designed to lessen the dangers of Ho regards Dr. Dyson's views or should they endeavour to fit it scrappiness. for the business of living?

Which is most likely to develop as being utterly fantastic and or two envelopes that have a a child, Latin or Woodwork, His-views the suggestion that pupils suggestion of perfume about Cloud-them, but lately, too many busi-

and I ness tory or Physics, Music or Basket-should travel round to separate

Cuckoo Town stuff, pure

firms have Wellberately work? Or are they all necessary? specialist schoola

simple.

According to Mr. Thomas the spilt scent over their envelopes Secondary School curriculum is in an attempt to get us to ac-

by the Univeral-cept delivery.' not dominated

Some of our admirers en- ties. London University accepta more than 26 subjects for mate

close three-cent stamps for culation.

The function of the Secondary replies. We encourage this type School is to give a good general of correspondence, because, by a certain standard in that general we can save the money. Three. education: the Universities accept replying through this column,

factor has arisen which suggesta encouragement for the prospects of any other method. The es tlon. Despite fluctuations failures there has undoubtedly beon, since the war, a determined attempt to set on foot a collectiva system of negotiations. Often thin method has been momentarily abandoned. There have been par ticular groups formed inside the larger groups. There have been understandings definitely directed against one or more countrics. Yot, with all its imporfections, the postwar porlod has been one of collective discussion and accordo.

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To say that, because the Univer- curriculum is sheer illogicality.

Hia curriculum would have a education as sufficient for their

hard days. decided practical bias, at the ex-purpose, just as commerce and in- conts is three cents in these We want to help you, dear penso of the Classics, Algebra, or dustry do. Chemistry, designed to fit people

about it! Replies sent in plain, sealed envelope. If you tired of your boy friend, look us over. But don't forget the three-cent stamp.

for their daily work and for the allies do this, they dominate the reader. Ask your Auntie Eddie enjoyment of leisure.

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Dr. Dyson, President of the recent Conference of Educational Associations, advocated a greater emphasis on "the arts and crafts, declaring them to be "above all POLAND'S ACTION

others the most suitable training Now this collective system ap-grounds both for the serious busi- pears to be menaced. Not only nesa of life and for the pleasure have certain countries withdrawn and recreation which might di- from the League because their veralfy that life". policy has been challenged or their aspirations have not been fulfill ed, but other nations are perpetually drawal. These incidents are mere hinting at the possibility of with- ly symptoms of a new movement

Many educationists have taken which should be carefully watch- ed. There is a tendency to break excoption to this plea for a "one- away from the whole conception aided" training, and demand that of collective conversations. the secondary schools should offer Poland, for example, which, hasa wido cultural appeal.

Are they doing this? always, been careful to remain by the side of France in negotiations, and to range itself with the Little

Mr. P. A. Wayne, headmaster of Entento, and to keep within the framework of the League of St. Marylebone Grammar School,

Mr. King believes that this will Nations, has asserted its independ. believes that they serve three very once and entered into a direct old aims and face two modern only be done by developing in- agreement with Germany. The perils. Boys must be made fit to dependence and initiative in the Four-Power Pact, though it rotain- earn their living, serve their children of to-day.

He is a great bellover in the the idea of collective diplomacy, fellows and enjoy themselves.

Vocational training only touches value of school camps, and insists narrowly restricted it,

anc, and the easiest of these that the basis of the curriculum

THE PARIS RIOTS Public opinion expresses itself in diverse ways; sometimes in a manner productive of disastrous consequences, robbing popular demonstration of its validity, Such will probably be the verdict upon the terrible scenes enacted in Paris on Tuesday night as the outcome of the Stavisky scandal, The people set out to convinced M. Daladier that France is in no mood to let the demand for a searching inquiry drop. They AUTARCHIC DIPLOMACY

three.

bo asked.

The development

of

of machines and mass production will demand an over Increasing number thinkers, and the need in the future will be for people who can uso thoir brains in a number of different directions-thus saya Mr. J. K. King, Principal of the George Green's School.

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Dear Mr. Kelly.-Is it dangerous to prick a blister with a pin?— Angelina.

Dear Angelina-Why bother? you don't likò him, don't accept

his invitations.

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Dear Dr, Kolly-Ever since I had my fourteenth baby I've had a pain in the neck. What would you adviso7-Mrs. Gluta.

Dear Mrs. Glutz-Many children

minutes.

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Dear Edward,-You are the one man I can turn to in Hongkong for advice. You know how it is, this Eddie. What exactly is "halitoris," anyway? Yours, Joc Winkle.

Dear Joo,--Even your friend won't tell you.-Eddio.

BITER BIT

bust

In supplement to education it must ho spoken English as well as

written. works, but in lieu of education it

Practical Science and Handwork succeeded; catastrophically. The These are only the outstanding is a "lop" first, because it has must also enter into the educative are pains in the neck, Try hold- disorders were symptomatic of examples of an undoubted swing a split purpose, ulterior to educa-process because of the constant Ing them under water for aftcon the public excitement and un- toward a more autarchic diplotion; and secondly, because when mental activity which they entail. Latin, Mathematics and Music

Dear Eddic-As between one rest which grew as fresh scandal macy. Whether temporary, bone-you have given boys vocational was brought to light and the fits can thus be obtained is still training most employers don't have their value in developing a Possibly want it.

critical faculty. If the achools man and another, will you help atmosphere was certainly not open to speculation.

which have Wise employers look for two succeed in their plan, there should me? For years I've beer troubled improved by M. Daladier's des difficult problems cent to bargaining for continun- resulted in deadlocks can thus be qualities--Integrity of character be a ready supply of adaptable with falling hair. No matter of Intelligence products from the schools-people what I do it keeps falling out. segregated. If two nations can and flexibility tion in office, with M. Chiappe as effect a rapprochement by the old Given these two they prefer to capable of fitting themselves into and it is n constant source

embarrassment to me. How can the bait Warning was given orthodox diplomatic channels it teach a boy their own business on any environment

Vocational training is no part I get rid of it: Constant Reader. but nothing seems to have been would be foolish to discourage the spot.

Sir John Reith's recent advice of the function of the secondary Dear Connio,-Get boy to sweep done which served to, pacify them. Thereafter, it may be easier

"orient" a boy's lot, at schools. It is their task to develop it into the fireplace. Ed. public feeling; and there follow to return to the collective system. to ed an outbreak grave beyond all Yet there is much which raises tender age, seems to Mr. Wayne personality and fit the pupils for that any walk of life, so that they wil prior imagining. Few died, but doubts. In England, at the pre- to be blind. He belloves

Dear Mr. Kolly-I am practical. the number of wounded and in-sent time, as well as in America, curriculum must serve flexibility never be square pegs in round

holes.

ly a stranger to Hongkong, and thore are voices which counsel a of mind, jured is estimated to have ex-complete retirement from contin- The very fabric of thought de- The war proved that educated sometimes feel very lonely. Could ceeded five thousand. Despite ental affairs. Their object is en-pends largely On language. men can adapt themselves to any you suggest anything I could do cruel punishment, the crowds tirely pacific. It is believed that Grammar and philology are, the job. The schools must train boys to relieve the tedium?-Jessie.

Dear Jessie.-Call me "Eddiɑ." fought for hours for, in the last if such countries as England make fascinating means of investigat-so that they will be able to adjust analysis, clean government. it known that they decline to being the mechanism of language themselves to now conditions with What is your telephone number. There can be no mistaking the drawn into a new war the pros- Grammar has been abandoned ease and confidence, meaning of the riots, however pects of peace will be improved. by many schoole only because ill-advised the mobs may have Is this proposition sound? His mon have made it preposterously

Mr. F. R. Hurlatono Jones, head- tory does not appear to afford dull. been. France has watched a arguments in its favour. On the "What uso is this subject going master of Holloway Secondary

(Continued Page 7.) great and insidious decline in contrary, the French assert that to be?" should never civic standards; it now demands even in 1914 war might possibly that this deterioration shall have been averted if it had been stop that there shall be a whole-made clear to Germany and to its sale clean-up, to make such allles that the British attitude frauds as disclosed by the would not be one of abstention. Stavisky affair, the Oustric The French contention has merely A theoretical value, but in the cir scandal and the De Lessep excumstances of to-day it would be posures, impossible. The prin- regrettable were the impression to cipal cause of this political be produced of British-and even deterioration has been the multi- American-nicofness. plicity of parties, merging into each other with a constantly moving centre of gravity. In trigue and wire-pulling have, President Wilson was supremely naturally, come more and more right when he declared there could into public life. In the flux of be no neutrals in another war. "splinter-parties" there have Every nation is interested, in the been unrivalled opportunities for most vital and inescapable man- "deals" and unscrupulous barner, in the porpetuation of peace. gaining, which have taken the And that interest cannot be satia- fled by looking on at the tentative honesty out of politics. It has

arrangements entered into by been possible to bring a Govern- others. Mr. J. A. Spender has put ment down in a day by 'an ́ar- the case well in aaying, "The only rangement between leaders. way for us to keep out of war in Ministers have never been pèr-to prevent war-which means to mitted to rest in charge of a co-operate with our neighbours in department long enough to upholding the League of Nations check its efficiency. General ad and to be faithful to our promises ministration has thus been left to resist aggressors and war makers." Nothing could be more pretty much to itself, and cor obvious. While it would be in- rupt ometals have had a wonder- vidious to faterfere with experi ful run. Small wonder that the mental negotiations which go out- public, so ofton victim of the side the conception of collectivo abuses to which this must lead, diplomacy, we should always re- has now risen up in protest., member that, despite the chocks M. Daladier's suggestion of an and the disillusions of many at- attempted coup de force may be tempts which have been made in the past fifteen years, the world dismissed. Communists may has become so essentially one that have profited when the Parisian nothing short of universal efforts crowd lost its reason; but the will suffice to establish and main- people undoubtedly felt a docptain genuine ponce among the

nations. Benae of righteousness.

NO_NEUTRALS

"Wo:scem to be having another run of Peggy Jeans."

There was an old fellow named

Brockett,

Who parked his false teeth in

a cup,

For fear that if left in his

Pocket,

He'd sit down and chew him-

self up.

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WELLY GOOD

It was very embarrassing. She had rather a bad memory, and our name. could not remember simple as it la. We showed her how to Polmaniso-to think of a work with which she could 48- soclate the namo.

Next time she met us she spoilt It all:

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mock!" she gushed.

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Whose Innocent Hips could not

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Who scorns to use powder,

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And here's to the man

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sophisticated,