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Optimist met pessimist at the Law School lorum last evening as The Rt. Hon. Chuter Ede, former British Home Secretary, and Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, discussed and argued the problem of effective education in the technical society of today...
...Ede, who was co-author of the British Education Act of 1944, felt that education must be aimed at the personal abilities and aptitudes of the student, especially at the elementary and secondary school level...
...future educators concern themselves primarily with the individual interests and psychological needs of their students, said Ede, then the conflict between the artist and the scientist will be solved by having each receive an education suited to his own aptitudes...
Only if education acquires such a personal approach, claimed Ede, will every student be enabled "to attain the most effective self-expression of the individuality with which he's been endowed...
...Laborite Home Secretary at the time, Chuter Ede had refused to save Evans' life. Convinced later of his mistake, Chuter Ede made a moving confession of error to the House; the Evans case did more than anything else to agitate debate. Sir Ernest Cowers, during the four years his royal commission studied the problem, himself underwent a complete about-face from his original conviction that those who wanted to abolish the death penalty were merely "people whose hearts were bigger than their heads...