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THE challenge to democracy at the present time derives part of its strength from the way in which education has been made to serve the purposes of the Fascist State. Those who believe in democracy have, however, been slow to realize that education for democracy is something quite different from education for Fascism, though an admirable pamphlet on “Bias in Education” issued last year by the Association for Education in Citizenship indicates that the danger of the tendency for education to become little more than a means of adjusting the individual to certain restraints on his or her liberty is already realized in some quarters. The present book is an admirable attempt to state the function of education in English democracy, and the participation of twenty-three authors has in no way prevented the presentation of a consistent and convincing exposition of the possibilities of deliberately planning our educational system to serve the purposes of democracy on a factual rather than a political basis.
Educating for Democracy
Planned and edited by J. I. Cohen R. M. W. Travers. Pp. xxx+458. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1939.) 10s. 6d. net.
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B., R. Educating for Democracy. Nature 144, 132 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144132a0
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