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A COMMITTEE of Scottish teachers, chosen, from all branches of school education, has recently issued a report entitled “Reform in Scottish Education,”1 which covers a wide field and embraces a large variety of topics. Many of the reforms advocated have already been set forth by others, and, in particular, by the Workers' Educational Association.—In common with the latter body, the Scottish committee recommends the raising of the leaving-school age of the primary school to fifteen years; the reduction of the size of classes, so that every teacher shall have not more than forty pupils under his charge at any one time; and the establishment of day continuation schools, to which all shall be compelled to go from fifteen to eighteen, unless they are already in attendance upon a course of secondary instruction. The committee also demands the abolition of the huge “factory “school, found so often in our large towns, and would limit the enrolment so that no school should accommodate more than 600 pupils.
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D., A. Continuative Education and its Objects. Nature 100, 148–149 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100148b0
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