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FOR nearly thirty years Mr. Cumberland has been headmaster of William Ellis School at Gospel Oak, and in convinced obedience to the founder's testament has been (since 1889) teaching “social science” to boys of ages from eight to eighteen—a remarkable record of pioneer work on lines which are sure to be widely followed in the near future. In other ways, too, with its early physics laboratory (1890) and its specially built geography room, the school has been in the front line, and we would heartily congratulate Mr. Cumberland on what he has achieved in spite of conditions often far from encouraging. He has expressed some of his ideals in an interesting little book which he calls “Association.” The title refers to the author's reasoned belief that one of the factors of human progress has been association, co-ordination, the multiplying of inter-relations. He illustrates this in a retrospect of the ascent of man, and by showing, how the individual finds himself and realises himself, both in body and mind, as an active social person.
Association: A Story of Man for Boys and Girls.
By Edward B. Cumberland. Pp. 32. (Published by the author at “Le Chalet,” Penn, Bucks., 1918.) Price 2s.
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Association: A Story of Man for Boys and Girls . Nature 102, 3 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102003a0
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