§ 39. Mr. Parkerasked the First Lord of the Admiralty the number of cadets entered at Dartmouth College and from public schools, respectively, each year from 1931, who were from state-aided secondary schools, and the percentage they formed of these totals?
Lord StanleyThe preparation of the information asked for would entail a prohibitive amount of labour. A sample investigation suggests that only occasionally does a boy from a state-aided secondary school go to Dartmouth, but the public school entry on the basis of an analysis of the entry for 1937, would appear to include about 25 per cent. from state-aided secondary schools.
Mr. AlexanderDoes not the answer of the Noble Lord show clearly how useless it is to go on with public expenditure upon education, if you do not take the result of the expenditure into your public services?
§ Mr. PalingIf that is so, why is there such a small number of boys from State-aided schools going there?