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be clerks and shop assistants. The child loses 

 interest in a system of education divorced 

 from life as it should be lived in the country. 

 The large farmer is never slow to take 

 advantage of the apathy of the labourer to 

 reduce education to its irreducible minimum. 



Mr. Balfour saliently remarked in a speech 

 made in the City in 1908 : " You will never 

 have individual initiative carried to its most 

 effective limits, unless you give that security 

 to the results of enterprise which it used to 

 be thought was the primary duty of a govern- 

 ment to give." 



That is just the very thing we do not do, 

 and yet with the power now granted to muni- 

 cipal authorities, and the institution of the 

 Works Department by various Town and 

 County Councils, how easy it would be to 

 train for public service the young craftsman 

 in technical and the secondary schools. By 

 inspiring more craftsmen with a sense of 

 beauty we might strike a blow at building 

 those terribly ugly edifices used as schools, 

 colleges, hospitals, workhouses, infirmaries, 

 village halls and cottages. 



With the growth of Democratic repre- 

 sentation, education in the beauty of design 



