Comparisons

In an electioneering speech, Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of Great Britain, declared that English schools were better than American. Said he: "We hear a great deal about American education, but from such opportunities as I have had of consulting those who have visited American schools., I do not believe the actual achievement of those schools is comparable to that of our schools. That judgment has been endorsed by American educators, themselves. I am told a highly competent observer has said that on the whole an...

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