§ 67. Commander BELLAIRSasked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that experiments conducted in certain English and Scottish elementary schools, including schools attached to important training institutions, have shown what early instruction, in rending and writing on phonetic lines conduces both to economy in education and to marked improvement in the children's work generally; and whether, in view of this, he will consider the advisability of giving, through departmental agencies, direct encouragement to the extended adoption of methods proved, wherever applied, to be successful?
§ Lord E. PERCYMy attention has been called to the experiments to which my hon. and gallant Friend refers, but I am not in a position at present to express a considered opinion on the merits of this method of instruction.