Mr. Bernard Shaw On Sex Instruction. The qlLestion of tho instruction. of the young Ion sex stubjects was discussed at the "Next Steps in Education " Congress at the Imperial Institute yesterday. Df. LETrr rT FArarEELD, of the school medical staff of the London County Council, in a paper on " School and Rlome in Sex Instruction," said instruction shouid begin before the child went to schooL It gave a child valuable protection ag3inst would-be corrupters. No child was te,o young to be taught that a human' baby grew like every other living thing from a seed. The keynote of all sex-teaching mulst be respect for the body. The diffleulty wvas great in the c.ase of Young children, but ciass instruction for girls and lads of 17 and over was well within the scope of practical politics. But they must first train the teachers. At pre;ent many girl graduates were as ill-informed as their own future pupils. Mr. PAroN, the IIigh Mfaster of Manchester Grammar School, said sex inLstruction was really the parents' duty, btut was shifted by then on to the shoulders of the parson or the schoolmaster. The instruction should not be by book, which said either too mnuch or too little. Thie duty of the school was to provide natire study of living plants and .animals. This wvotld enable the child to give to the facts of procreation their right setting. Schools should also provide gamies. The best antidote to impure pleasure was the pure pleasure of English sport. To keep fit was to keep good. 31r. C>. BERNARD SHAW said he believed with all his soul that the masters wvho had uirged the import- ance of giving boys plenty of ..thletics as a cure for sex troubles weie frightfully wrong. The head- master who Once suggested keeping them so hard at work at athletics that thiey vent to bed too tired for mischief had shocked the public. It wats utterly riliculous to suggest tha&t Athletes were the most continent and delicate people in the vworld. Indeed. it would be quite possible to make out a strong case on the other side. Certain thilln,s should be taught the children, and it wouild be better to teaclh then wvhen t.hev coul(l not. fully understand. There was grent dnuger in giving this teaching at thlie -ge of pbllerty wvhen no conversation on sex could be an impersonal ono. The probleml for tho par-.nt and teachher. wats how to satisfy the sexuial impul!ses of young people. Thley could not, as in sonme countries, marry thoe children straight oft and adopt the simplest, p Ilt. Ilt h' suggested that it real interest in fiate art, in music, painting, and([ poetry would, il the case of most' nornmal children, tide over tho years between puhu-rtv and Maturity. keeping the imnaginiation at work rath;e: th:n the 'rulder passions. A repstiutiol t-hat. the meeting considered it. a mat-ter of urgent public importance that instrui.!ion in s(i: natters shoutl(l be. introduced as soon as possible into the trainiig coileges was carried. MR. BERNARD SHAW ON SEX MRtTUmoQN ATHLETICS AND CLEALN LIVLN{C.