Abstract

The English Education Bill

The article focuses on issues related to the educational reconstruction in England after the first World War. In England, the case of education was somewhat different from the beginning. For some ten years immediately preceding the war there had been growing up a powerful opinion in favor of reconstruction. The Workers' Educational Association had conducted classes for workingmen in such topics as history, economics, literature, and economic history. To these compelling reasons for reconstruction was added one of an administrative character. In England the tradition of local control is very powerful, and in educational administration especially it is felt that a centralized system must be watched very jealously lest it should destroy the valuable elements of local initiative and interest.