HOLMES TALKS ON LIBERALISM

"Federal government participation in the state educational system is a necessity," declared Henry W. Holmes, former Dean of the Graduate School of Education, at the Lowell House "Liberalism" discussion Tuesday evening. Holmes, now acting as a professor at the school, said that government intervention is at present the only solution to the unequal quality of education offered in the public schools of the nation's different states and sections.

Defining a liberal in the field of education as one interested in introducing new techniques of teaching and in attempting the use of a greater variety of these new methods in the educational system, Holmes went on to describe some of the present controversies in educational theory.

Holmes stated that he considered education a "continuous process having no definite point at which one can attain a general education. It is the philosophic interpretation of scholarship rather than the gaining of specific knowledge that is most important in education." Specialization therefore should not start at any pre-arranged time in one's educational development.

Concluding the present series with a lecture dealing with the religious aspects of liberalism, the Reverend Ernest Kuebler, Educational Director of the American Unitarian Association, will speak Tuesday evening at 7:15 o'clock in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. This seventh and final discussion is expected to be a summing-up of the previous views forwarded by several past lecturers representing various sides of the liberal theory