" FORMATION COLLEGES "
SIR,—I am sorry to have given Mr. Brimble the impression in my article on Formation Colleges that I wished to make extravagant claims for Army education. I can assure him that I deplore such claims at least as much as he does. But I feel that he is a little unfair in lifting half a sentence from its context. No doubt my meaning would have been more clearly 'expressed if I had written: " In short, a Formation College is something of a university, &c." Nevertheless, I would say, with Mr. Gladstone, "Read on." My meaning is clearer, I hope, when the half sentence is seen in its context. In any case a Formation College is something more than a civilian resettlement centre, as I think Mr. Brimble would agree if he
visited one. I would like to ask-him whether be has seen any of the Formation Colleges in this country. I know at least that he has not visited the one I had in mind when writing my article. May I assure him that he would be a very welcome visitor ?—Yours faithfully,
ANTHONY HAWTHORNE.
No. 5 Formation College, Luton Hoo, Luton, Bedfordshire.
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