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LARGE extensions in the work of elementary education, provided in the Education Act of 1918, have given rise to the necessity for providing books of a new type. Whether the increased facilities for education offered by the Act are ever to materialise cannot yet be stated, but the series in preparation by Messrs. Macmillan and Co., three volumes of which have been issued, seems to provide a type of book which should have a very beneficial influence on education beyond the elementary-school standard. One of the arguments against education is that it unfits the “worker” to perform his daily routine. Even the least intelligent critic would probably admit that a workman is not less useful when he knows something about the material he handles and the machinery which manipulates it. The “Life and Work Series” will assist education which, without being narrowly utilitarian, takes as a basis the life and work of man—a wide enough scope for any educator.
Introduction to Textile Chemistry.
By H. Harper (Life and Work Series.) Pp. ix + 189. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1921.) 3s. 6d.
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Introduction to Textile Chemistry . Nature 109, 268–269 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109268b0
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