Education and Poverty.

AFTER a good deal of beating about the bush the Director at length tells us what he does want. "It is mere cruelty, almost fraud," he says, "to allow a boy whose family are pinching themselves for his education to take up the high school course if it is obviously beyond his capacity." Again:-"A fee so low that the poor dullard is tempted to essay an education for which he has not the least capacity and which can bring him nothing but disappointment is merely a delusion and a snare. A general lowering of the cost and thereby necessarily the effectiveness of secondary education for the sake of those whose only claim to consideration is their poverty is not only a wrong to society, it is also a crime to posterity." We have already pointed out that these ideas are wrong.