ABSTRACT

For many years, educational reformers have demanded complete equality for all schools which educate children over the age of 11. Few will disagree with the ideal of equality between the varying types of secondary school which are provided by the State system. It is partly to meet this difficulty that the multi-lateral school has been suggested. The supreme advantage of the multi-lateral school is that it mixes together in one building pupils with different interests and outlooks, of different ranges of ability and of different social origins. The multi-lateral school will also facilitate a number of much needed educational reforms. An important feature of the existing secondary school system, putting is the assumption that the cleverest children should go to the grammar school. A successful multi-lateral school will need a staff very different in outlook from most of the teachers now serving in the various schools for children over 11.