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THE protracted discussions in the House of Commons, the numerous leading articles in the newspapers and the frequent public speeches of politicians, concerned with the subject of education, with which we have been provided during the past six months, are evidence enough that English people are at least beginning to be interested in the important question of the provision made by the State for the education of its citizens. But interest alone is not enough, it must be intelligent; and to ensure this it is important that the instructors of public opinion should themselves be well informed, both as to what is actually happening in the schools and colleges of our own country and as to the systems of education in other lands. For these and similar reasons, the special reports published from time to time by the Board of Education, under the editorship of Mr. Michael E. Sadler, the director of special inquiries, have a peculiar value just now; while the general reports of H.M. Inspectors serve admirably to remind Members of Parliament that despite the changes which may be necessary in our educational administration, good, thorough work is even now being accomplished in most of our State-aided schools, whether elementary or secondary.
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Recent Educational Reports 1 . Nature 66, 453 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066453a0
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