frcem Stan Mills
The Observer (15/11/64) reported: "The motion 'That this House deplores current developments in school education in Britain,' debated by the Schools! Debating Association at Grey Coats Hospital, Westminster, on Friday, was defeated by 85 votes to 63, with 12 abstentions. The proposers were Dame Joyce Bishop, former headmistress of Godolphin and Latymer, and Miss Irene Hilton, secretary of the Women's Employment Federation. Mr. Tyrrell Burgess, assistant editor of New Society, and Professor H.C. Dent, London University Institute of Education, opposed the motion. Comprehensive schools became the main issue in the debate, and there were excellent speeches from the floor. Mr. Anthony Wright, the Schools! Debating Association's chairman, presided. The Association's patron, Lord Kilmuir, was represented by the seniar treasurer, Mr. J.W. Hunt, City of London School. Editorial continued/
inevitably brings a cash reward to the man who knows, however hazily. To put the economy on a grid requires not a change in laws, simply, but a change in the social system: and when that is accomplished, undoubtedly Sir Leon's computers will be high-powered weapons in the strugele to. change over from the government of men to the 'administration of things,! To step from a world lit by twilights of half-knowledge and obscured by dense foggy areas of dim unthinking ignorance, into one brightly known self-aware, illuminated, is first to finish with capitalism. Sir Seon Bagrit should stimulate us all to make haste about it. ;