EVOLUTION OF 'SECONDARY EDUCATION'.

The article discusses the evolution of secondary education in Great Britain. The schools, while meeting the needs of those pupils who can give their whole time to instruction, are also to serve as continuation schools for apprentices in towns and also for winter schools for the young members of the population. The establishment of new schools would conduce in the most certain and effectual manner to the improvement of the great public schools', of which the principal defect at the time to be too much pre-occupation with Latin and Greek. Thus it would appear that the term secondary education had a political aroma and for many years carried with it a presupposition of a reorganization of English education upon lines different from those recognized by tradition. The organization of middle-class education must be a State affair and that the intervention of the British Government would be indispensable in order to create a national and systematic approach to a widespread provision of education. In retrospect, the nineteenth century saw an impetus given to the development of elementary education, the first half of the twentieth century saw an impetus given to the expansion of secondary education.