23 JUNE 1923, Page 9

It is impossible to over-estimate the importance to the Empire

of gatherings such as the Imperial Education Conference, which will assemble at the Board of Education next Monday. The Conference will be attended by leading educationists from all the Dominions and many of the Crown Colonies. What can Canada learn from New Zealand, or what can Australia or Great Britain add to our common fund of knowledge ? Ques- tions such as these can only be answered when the delegates meet round the Conference table. Of one fact we can be certain : every section has its contribution to make as well as its lesson to learn.' It is work of this kind, so often unnoticed by the majority, which provides the invisible cement necessary for uniting a widely scattered world-State.