Education: Britons at Bristol

Meeting at Bristol last week, pedagogs in Section L of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (see p., 36) delivered themselves of their newest thoughts about the British educational system, among them these:

Part-Time v. Full-Time. Said Lord Eustace Percy, president of the section, president of the British Board of Education (1924-29), stanch supporter of the League of Nations:

"At present our attitude toward higher education is vitiated by three unhealthy influences. The first is the superstitious reverence for full-time schooling which we owe to an hereditary governing class. . ....

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