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The article presents the primary schools in Great Britain and discusses their characteristics, which are so much unlike the traditional and formal institutional settings. Informal schools are characterized with mobility of children, acceptance of individuality, children's works are evaluated over a period of time and emphasis on concrete materials. American teachers, parents and administrators took great interest in such setting due to lack of significant human contact in the American quality of life, child-centered approach of the informal schools and obvious joy of the children.

Presents several letters to the editor related to social and political issues of the world. British rule making India unfit for self-rule; Laws related to Japanese immigrants in the U.S.; Establishment of an educational fund to assist Philippine students in the U.S.

The article provides some insights into the functions and effectiveness of Teachers' Centers in Great Britain towards the implementation of educational change. Evidently, Teachers' Centers has become the common meeting ground for primary and secondary teachers, for teachers with many years of experience and the newly qualified, for practicing teachers, including classroom teachers and administrators. Basically, Teachers' Centers offer an opportunity for in-service education for local teachers and educators.

Discusses the pamphlet "A Modern School" by Abraham Flexner, published by the Great Britain General Education Board. Child's preference for education would not be the final consideration; Flexner points out the British system's failure to teach Latin or Greek literatures; Neither Latin nor Greek would be continued in the curriculum of Flexner's modern school; Study in Latin is a preparation for life; Argument that Latin language aids in securing a vigorous or graceful use of the mother tongue; Boys at Perse School learn to read Latin with ease.

Presents information on the formation of the new labor cabinet in Great Britain. Information on appointments of members in the new labor cabinet; Reference to the common-school education of some of the members of the new cabinet; Revealment that the members of the Labor Cabinet are people who have been in executive posts for many years; Citation that the average age of the party is sixty; Notation that of the Parliamentary Labor Party only about 125 members are trade unionists; Acknowledgement that the Labor Party is in deadly earnest in its effort to create full employment in Great Britain.

The article focuses on the interpretation of the Carnegie report by "The London Times" which exposed the educational shortcomings of the U.S. In the report, it is stated that American education is never fully understood but there is a vague belief in its efficiency brought about by reports of English educationalists themselves. According to the newspaper, the root of illiteracy is immigration, adding that it can be solved by Americans if they have the will and wealth. A comparison of the issue of education in the U.S. and Great Britain is presented.

Scholar Sidney Lee has returned to England convinced that the American way of choosing college professors is better than the English, and has manfully made his avowal of conversion in the newspaper "London Times." Towards that variety of the merit system, which prevails at the English universities, his attitude is one of courteous ridicule. No man of high professional standing likes to answer an advertisement and put himself in public competition with a score of nobodies, and no modest person wishes to draw up the list of his own qualifications; while canvassing for the endorsement of distinguished acquaintances is the most distasteful task that can be set a scholar.