Abstract
IN times of comparatively rapid social change, there tends to be more thinking about education than in periods of comparative quiescence. Those who seek to control the development of society, in whatever aspect of it they are interested, are apt at some stage in their thinking to see in education one of the main forces which can bring about the conditions they desire. This is natural, for one of the chief functions of education is to transmit to the young what the older members of society most value in their culture, as the basis of the new world in which the young will live. Dr. Maxwell Garnett is concerned with the world "during the next two generations", and he adopts Mr. R. A. Butler's dictum that "education is the main arm with which to win the next peace".
The World We Mean to Make
And the Part of Education in Making It. By Maxwell Garnett. Pp. 264.(London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1943.) 10s. 6d. net.
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OLIVER, R. The World We Mean to Make. Nature 153, 755–756 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153755a0
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