§ SIR JOSEPH BAILEY (Hereford)(for Mr. NORTON) (Kent, Tunbridge) 154 asked the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, If his attention has been directed to the following passage in the Report issued last year by the Select Committee on National Provident Insurance:—
Your Committee are of opinion that it is highly desirable that the Legislature, which has made education compulsory, should cause instruction in sound principles of thrift and insurance to form part of that education;and, whether he has considered the propriety of introducing an elementary text book on the principles of provident insurance into the routine of elementary schools?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT (Sir WILLIAM HART DYKE) (Kent, Dartford)The Department have had under consideration the passage referred to by my hon. Friend; and will place no difficulty in the way of managers exercising their discretion as to the choice of such a reading book as he describes if it fulfils the ordinary conditions.