86 LAND SETTLEMENT & EDUCATION 



We cannot send the right type of citizen to our 

 Dominions unless we have an overflowing agri- 

 cultural population at home from which to send 

 the surplus to our Dominions. 



We have had in the past conferences and en- 

 quiries dealing with one or another phase of educa- 

 tion, and the information elicited has been most 

 valuable. But to deal with odd parts of a problem 

 still leaves the whole problem unsolved. What we 

 need therefore is a strong official committee ap- 

 pointed to investigate the whole question of educa- 

 tion with this special end in view: How best to 

 increase the proportion of the rising generation 

 who will go in for a career on the land ? 



A Committee appointed by the Board of Educa- 

 tion, or by the Board of Agriculture, or even a Joint 

 Committee will not suffice ; for the Local Govern- 

 ment Board and the Home Office are also both 

 concerned. We need, therefore, a quadruple Joint 

 Committee so that all the Government Departments 

 in any way concerned with education would be 

 brought in. It would be difficult to overestimate 

 the value of the report of such a committee as 

 the one I propose ; and as in the school of War the 

 whole nation is acquiring a keener perception of 

 the things that really matter in our national life, 

 we may before over-long have a committee whose 

 recommendations will enal le us to establish an 

 educational system worthy of the name.^ 



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There is one other factor in the development of 

 our resources in land to which I must refer, though 



1 Since writing this an inter-departmental committee dealing 

 with one part of the subject has been appointed very much on 

 the lines advocated. 



