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individual subjects is considerably simplified. In addition
 to this the essential point of continuity is secured.
There would be one central dining-hall, chapel,
gymnasium, baths, and workshops for both senior and
junior divisions, different times being allotted for them,
In this way the expensive large buildings would be
occupied to double the extent that they are at present
at our great schools, resulting in financial economy,
coupled with the provision of much better accommodation
than is possible at any isolated preparatory school,
On passing from the preparatory school houses to the
public school dormitories there would be an entire regrouping,
 so that the advantages of new associations,
which is a feature of the present preparatory and public
school system, would be retained.
The following plan (p. 76) may serve to illustrate this
suggestion: it has no architectural - claims, and the
possibly objectionable symmetry is of course entirely
unnecessary. The illustration must be merely taken
as diagrammatic.
The cloisters and passages, as well as the times of the
school programmes, can easily be arranged so as to preclude
 any associations between the two divisions of the
school.

“The waste in a teacher’s workshop is the lives of men.”
This statement of the late Dr. Thring, one of the outstanding
 head masters and organizers that the educational
world has been fortunate enough to possess, needs emphasizing
 at the moment. The lives of men, potentially great
men such as England needs now more than ever, must be
most carefully preserved, and the thousands of conferences,
 the hundreds of letters in the newspaper press,
the scores of books on the subject are of no avail. What
is required is action and immediate action.

The statements of fact in the foregoing pages are based