fees and require 100 per cent. State finance, bureaucracy will institute 100 per cent. control.

Fortunately various bodies are alive to the possibilities. The whole case is, in fact, set out in the Fleming Report (H.m. Stationery Office). For that reason it may be hoped that traditional British commonsense may strip the Education Bill of many of its bureaucratic gee-gaws as it goes through Parliament and ensure that there is scope in the scheme for individuality of outlook as a principle in secondary schools.
This we should encourage and hope for, Our ease is for less than 100 per cent. State control in schools which required 100 per cent. rate and tax support. We require this in primary as well as secondary schools. There is no reason why we should not have it if it is once admitted for secondary schools, for where in the future will be the difference between primary and secondary?
Therefore, for the future we ehould talk of this Bill as the Bureaucrats' Bill and point out the danger to secondary schools of repute in our own neighbourhoods. It is legitimate too to quote the setting up of State boarding schools mooted as a first inroad into the public school system. It is in fact S nation e0 duty to inform the general nubile, who know nothing about the Bill other than that it promises free secondary education for all, that it inends that the education of their children will in the future be made safe for bureaucracy.
PAUL DONNELLY, Richmond, Surrey.