Technology and the Sixth Form Boy.

This article presents a Report on technological studies in Great Britain. This Report immediately on its appearance, had the distinction of being considered by members of the Government. It deserved this attention because it confirmed statistically what had long been suspected, namely that much of the blame for the neglect of higher technological studies in this country could be justly put upon the shoulders of headmasters and science masters of boy's grammar and public schools. To an extent unusual in Europe boys from the top grades of our science sixth cluster in the faculties of pure science, while engineering and Diploma in Technology courses draw on the lower grades. Although in some countries (notably Holland and West Germany) there is a tendency for an intellectual Elite to prefer pure science, as in England, this is a smaller Elite, and there are other countries (Sweden and possibly France) where the position is reversed; nowhere does technology fail to attract the best brains to anything approaching the same degree as in this country.