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England has not yet imitated the example set by America and by most of the British Dominions in making public secondary education free.
Secondary Education For All (1922)
Transference from the primary school to higher education should depend solely upon whether it is likely to be for the benefit of the children concerned.
Secondary Education For All (1922)
Its desire is that what is weak in the higher education of the country should be strengthened, and that what is already excellent should be made accessible to all.
Secondary Education For All (1922)
In England it is not ungentlemanly to steal halfpennies from children, and industrial interests, it may be assumed, will oppose any reform which interferes with the supply of cheap juvenile labour.
Secondary Education For All (1922)
Those who have hitherto governed the nation, believing, and believing with justice, that ignorance and docility go hand in hand, have taken care to ration the education of the workers in doses small enough to be innocuous to the established order.
Secondary Education For All (1922)
They would very strongly advise that in selecting children for higher education care should be taken to avoid creating, as was done, for example, in India, a large class of persons whose education is unsuitable for the employment they eventually enter.
Secondary Education For All (1922)