ABSTRACT
Educational conferences are very often dull. But the main reason for this is not, as is sometimes said, that those who take part in them pontificate or talk officials. Educators do, of course, do both—maybe to a slightly greater extent, owing to the nature of their profession, than those in other walks of life—but many who are not headmasters pontificate, and the use of administrative jargon is not confined to education officers or inspectors. The Committee of the Privy Council on Education was established in 1839, by royal action, since there was no other way of overcoming the obstruction in the Great Reformed Parliament. Even as it was, a resolution deploring it went happily through the Lords, and failed by two votes only in the Commons. The question of segregation or non-segregation is ultimately a question of principle, on which compromise is not possible.
