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USING the starting point that total education caters for the needs of all boys and girls and adult members of the community in their infinite variety, the theme of Mr. Jacks' book is that it can only do this if its educational provision is of a like variety. Or, to use a metaphor which he frequently introduces, Mr. Jacks' idea of total education is that of an educational tapestry on which an intelligible pattern can be woven out of a diversity of colours and designs. Among educationists there are probably not many who would not wish to create the general pattern of education for which Mr. Jacks is striving ; dissension would begin and grow when the means to achieve his total education were considered.
Total Education
A Plea for Synthesis By M. L. Jacks. (International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction.) Pp. vii + 160. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1946.) 10s. 6d. net.
New Teaching for a New Age
By A. H. T. Glover. Pp. ix + 188 + 20 plates. (Edinburgh and London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1946.) 15s. net.
Who Shall be Educated?
The Challenge of Unequal Opportunities. By Prof. W. Lloyd Warner, Prof. Robert J. Havighurst and Martin B. Loeb. (International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction.) Pp. xi + 180. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1946.) 10s. 6d. net.
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HAWKINS, T. Total Education New Teaching for a New Age Who Shall be Educated?. Nature 157, 784 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157784a0
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