Education: They Were There

British children are now learning about the U.S. from British children who have been there. Quiz sessions are run jointly by Britain's interdenominational Talbot House (popularly known as Toc H) and the London OWI.

After tea about a hundred 14-to 17-year-old veterans of the London blitz gather around the fireplace in the headmaster's living room of Westminster School, adjoining the ancient Abbey. Under the chairmanship of an OWI girl, they fire questions at a brain trust of two or three young people repatriated after living in the U.S. The brain trust is...

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