The Study of Education in England

Abstract

AS in the War of 1914-18, and indeed at all times of social upheaval, the pamphlet is much in evidence. One of the latest and best is Sir Fred Clarke's pamphlet or 'little book', which goes to the roots of educational reform in Great Britain. His experience, first in England, then for many years at Cape Town and at Montreal, and then as adviser to overseas students at the London Institute of Education, of which he is director, places him in a -unique position for surveying the whole vast educational problem (an aspect of the vast social problem) which gradually unrolls itself as this War goes on. His taste does not take the form of writing large books. He prefers the way of the pamphlet and the magazine article, thrown off as occasion arises or as the inspiration comes. But his pamphlets are so packed with matter that they amount to treatises in disguise. The pages of this latest example, “The Study of Education in England”, contain more “thought to the square inch” than the reviewer has for some time encountered.

The Study of Education in England

By Prof. F. Clarke. Pp. iv + 60. (London: Oxford University Press, 1943.) 2s. 6d. net.