^ THE CAMBRIDGE BULLETIN jjl 



No. XXXI February 19 14 



A National Syistem of Education. By John Howard TFhitehouse, M.P. 



Demy Svo. pp. x + 92. Price zs. 6 J. net. 



"The code of the Board of Education has attempted a task at once 

 impossible and grotesque, that of laying down a curriculum which would 

 enable the children of the elementary schools to receive their educational 

 equipment for life before reaching an age at which the children of wealthier 

 parents are still in the nursery or the preparatory school." 



In the above sentence the author states the anomaly which lies at the 

 root of our educational system, and the plea for co-ordination which is the 

 basis of his suggestions embraces not only the levelling up of curricula but 

 the breaking down of the class distinction which at present separates 

 elementary and secondary schools; he insists upon "the regarding of 

 elementary education as the education appropriate for children of certain 

 ages irrespective of their social position, and for secondary education to be 

 regarded as continued education appropriate to a later age." 



"The significance of the book," says The Nation, "lies largely in the 

 fact that it represents not merely the thinking of an individual. The 

 book represents the collective thinking of what has come to be known as 

 the Education Group in the House of Commons, and it is issued with 



their general approval We have in the book a thought-out programme 



of reform It is schematic, confessedly so ; but it is, at any rate, synoptic 



and, abo\e all, Mr Whitehouse is a man who has made up his mind what 

 he means to do as soon as he has the chance — and the millions." 



Essays on Social and Political Questions. By the same author. 



Demy Svo. pp. x + 96. Price 35. net. 



The titles of the essays are as follows : Bulgaria and Servia in JFar, 

 Britain and Germany, Foreign Policy, Canon Barnett, A Neiv Social Experi- 

 ment, At Brantivood on Ruskins Eightieth Birthday, Ruskin and Scott, The 

 Hand oj the Spoiler. 



"Another important volume ot sociology The work attacks a number of burning 



social and political problems «ith vigour and independence." — The Daily Telegraph 



