ABSTRACT
A part of school life which can help to prevent the education from being too narrow is out-of-class activities, such as debating societies, drama groups and various societies catering for hobbies. An analysis of the results according to the occupational class of the fathers of the respondents produced no discernible association, but analysis by first and last schools gave a more favourable result for last schools, whether they were co-educational or girls' schools. The results for male ex-pupils yield the same direction of difference, but the amount is smaller, that between first schools being statistically significant but that between last schools being far from significant, so that this advantage for co-educational schools attended as seniors is not reliable. As in the case of the females the male ex-pupils gave more favourable estimates of the out-of-school activities when they were seniors in the school—both co-educational and boys' schools—than did ex-pupils who were junior pupils.
