SIR, —May I support "Honour's Graduate's " letter about education in
the R.A.F. which is in such marked contrast with the grand work done in the Army? Here are a few actual facts. .
a. The director of my area was asked to send a lecturer from the panel to a big R.A.F. station where,. for the first time, a lecture was fixed in working hours. At the appointed time the audience consisted of two officers and one W.A.A.F.
2. A month ago that same lecturer was approached by the Squadron
Leader in charge of E.V.T. at a station and asked if he would help in E.V.T. work. Subjects were discussed and noted and everything seemed ready. That was a month ago and nothing has happened yet.
3. The same man arrived at a certain station at the hour fixed for an E.V.T. lecture. No one knew anything about it or him so he went home—a 4o mile trip. It eventuated that the lecture had been fixed, on behalf of the acting education officer, by the M.O., who got the dates mixed!
The writer has averaged a lecture a week for six years in the Army to every sort of Unit and the work has been a joy, but the R.A.F. has not yet found room for education and its education officers are the cinderellas of their stations.—I am, Sir, yours faithfully, EDUCATOR.
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