Note 31 — Chapter VI · EDUCATION
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It is true that in its Suggestions for the Consideration of Teachers (p. 28) the Board of Education does lay down that: “One of the fundamental purposes of education is to ensure that the child has an ample fund of ideas about the world in which it lives, and that these ideas should be, as far as may be, full and exact”; but what follows (pp. 28, 29) is so meaningless and reveals such an inadequate appreciation of the value of ideas in adult life, that it stultifies the value of the foregoing.