§ 10. Dr. Kingasked the Minister of Education how many extra teachers would be required to reduce the size of all secondary classes to 30 and primary classes to 40.
§ Mr. Geoffrey LloydAbout 60,000.
§ Dr. KingIs the Minister aware that this illustrates the terrific magnitude of the problem with which he is coping? If he cannot hope to solve it within any reasonable time by the present annual extra increase in the number of teachers, and if he hopes to introduce three-year teacher training and to get the sizes of classes down to what they ought to be, he must embark on a bold revolutionary expansion of the training colleges that exist and also build new ones.
§ Mr. LloydThere is also the question of graduate teachers. The number of teachers coming from the graduate courses and the colleges is increasing steadily year by year, but I recognise the magnitude of the problem.