The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-27
GOOD SYSTEM IN
 ENGLISH SCHOOLS Hon. WhiteIaW Reid Makes
 Some Comparisons EXAMPLE FOR AMERICANS Ambassador Talks To Teachers on the Differences Between English and
 American Education and
 Suggests Reforms.
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Syracuse N. Y, December 26-Whitelaw Reid, ambassador to Great Britain, to- night delivered an address to the New York State Teachers association, which is meeting in annual convention here on Some Points of Difference Between the Educational Systems of the Two Great English Speaking Countries"
 The ambassador sketched the early his- tory of English schools, and in comment on private school teachers in one part of London at the present time, told how they are unqualified for the work.
 And yet I cannot help feeling" said he, that on the general subject we might profitably take a hint from the old coun try. Whatever else we may say about the English schools, they do turn out well behaved, orderly boys and girls, respect full to those set over them, grounded in the morals of Christian civilization, with an nstinctive sense of obedience to law and becoming regard for the authority that represents it. Would we be any the worse off if we had more of these quail ities here? May it not happen that in our effort to keep all questions of religion and morals in what we consider their proper place, they may in reality be left without any place in the training of a. good many children. If the interest of the republic requires that everyone should be compelled to learn to read its laws, does not the same interest as imperative ly require that every child should be taught, and should be unable to escape being taught the absolute necessity of rer spect for those laws and of prompt and dutiful obedience to the officers of the law? Does not the interest of the repub- lie further demand that the coming citi- zens shall have some idea of our old be- liefs In the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man or at least shall be thoroughly grounded in the great princ- ples of the moral law, without which neither liberty nor civilization itself can exist.
 'If English schools, according to our ideas go too far in teaching creeds may we not be going too far the other way in some parts of the country, at least, in excluding altogether, or in giving too lit- tie space to teaching unsection religion and morals, to enforcing respect for au- thority and to training the habit of mind that secures unhesitating obedience to law, and to It's officers? In London, the policeman. the representative of law, often controls the biggest and angriest crowd by lifting his hand, in cases where the New York policeman has to lift his club. Some cause has produced this diff ference. Is 1t improbable that early training In school that could In no wise be escaped by the growing boy had something to do with it?''
 Speaking of the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford the ambassador said
 ''The purpose of the great man who founded the trust was to promote inti- mate and friendly relations between the most highly educated class of the mother country and those of her "gant offspring of the west, and to further good under included in the arrangement-England Germany and the United States. I have met these Rhodes students at the annual reunion at Oxford. and I am glad to testify here at home to their admirable appearance and conduct, and to the fa- vorable opinions of them expressed to me by the Oxford deacons. with whom I conversed. As one saw them together breaking in upon the cloistered quiet of those historic halls, he might almost imagine himself at big middle west col lege in our own country. He would scarcely be able to single out the Ger man Rhodes scholars from the rest and be quite unable to tell Americans from Australians or Rhodesans or New Found flanders or Cape Colonlsts or New Zeal anders. But about them all was the air of new worlds and a new era One might almost fancy their eyes had al- ready seen the glory of the time when under the leadership of the English speaking peoples. the war drum throbbed on longer and the battle fiars were furled in the parliament of man, the federation of the worlds