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IN his presidential address to Section L (Education), Sir Fred Clarke remarks that it is now better understood how we have reached a stage where education has-becoine a major instrument of national policy. Some light is thrown on the matter, so far as Great Britain is concerned, by a glance back over the last two centuries or so. Two phenomena are particularly noticeable: first, that in both content and methods education was overwhelmingly a matter of tradition ; and second, that the golden age of liberalism was also an age of maximum security.
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The Widening Scope of the Study of Education. Nature 164, 395 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164395a0
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