HC Deb 26 February 1900 vol 79 cc1102-3
MR. LOUIS SINCLAIR

I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he could introduce (billing in elementary schools as part of the boys' education.

SIR J. GORST

Drill or suitable physical exercises are according to the code a condition of the higher grant for discipline in all schools for older scholars.

MR. TOMLINSON () Preston

Will care be taken that in the future the drill is such as to fit the children for service in the Army?

SIR J. GORST

In great towns it is done, but, obviously, it would be impossible in a country village, where there were only perhaps thirty children taught by a schoolmistress, to have military drill.