By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual, succ… - R. H. Tawney

It is still possible for the largest education authority in the country to propose to erect inequality of educational opportunity into a principle of public policy by solemnly suggesting, with much parade of philosophical arguments, that the interests of the community require that the children of well-to-do parents, who pay fees, should be admitted to public secondary schools on easier intellectual terms than the children of poor parents who can enter them only with free places, and that the children who are so contemptible as to be unable to afford secondary education without assistance in the form of maintenance allowances shall not be admitted unless they reach a higher intellectual standard still!

Mankind may wring her secrets from nature, and use their knowledge to destroy themselves.

England has not yet imitated the example set by America and by most of the British Dominions in making public secondary education free.