Education: School of the Future?

Wartime or no, schoolmasters will still get together to talk shop. Last week in London the Incorporated Association of Assistant Masters in Secondary Schools held a meeting. The retiring chairman, homey, 60-year-old Arthur Henry Baker, chemistry master of Fitzmaurice Grammar School at Bradford-on-Avon, took a long look into the future, reported a horrendous sight:

"The multilateral school* of 1980 will have some 3,000 pupils and there will be umpteen sides and umpteen wings in each. Its buildings will dwarf the countryside for miles around. It will have its own aerodrome and...

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