13 FEBRUARY 1926, Page 3

We hope that the educational controversy will now become calmer.

The manner in which both the Circular guld. the Memorandum were launched was unfortunate. Mr. Neville Chamberlain has always shown a better way by taking local authorities into his confidence in advance. We are convinced, however, that Lord Eustace Percy is justified in essentials. The percentage system has caused waste ; and waste is no more tolerable in education than elsewhere, though we do not grudge a penny that is well spent on education. Moreover, the tendency has been for the House of Commons to lose control. The Duchess of Atholl well said that what Lord Eustace Percy proposed was not revolution but evolution. * * * . *