Science and Administration 



the duty of advising as to the ideals and the 

 essential methods of administrative policy. 



In the case of public health, for example, Local 

 Authorities, the Education Department, the Board 

 of Agriculture, the Home Office, the Local Govern- 

 ment Board, have, all of them, responsibilities and 

 functions. That their representatives confer is, 

 no doubt, true ; but from time to time chance 

 reveals the failure of administration as a whole 

 to avoid the departmental ruts. The accident of 

 a Parliamentary inquiry discloses to the public the 

 spectacle of physical deterioration in the people. 

 We become aware that no one has been charged 

 with the duty of discovering what the conditions of 

 health are, and how the various departments ought 

 to address themselves to the task of having those 

 conditions secured. 



So it is with education. We permit ourselves to 

 entertain the extraordinary delusion that education 

 is the exclusive business of the schoolmasters ; and 

 we entrust its guidance to schoolmasters, with a 

 mixed control set over them locally and a depart- 

 ment of magnified schoolmasters in authority. 

 That is the inevitable structure of an education 

 system ; but it is a structure which needs to be 

 kept under review and directed to specific objects. 

 It is a structure involving local government, and 

 requiring to be adapted to the task of preparing 

 for the functions of a citizen labour in trade 

 and industry, war by sea and land and to the 

 equipment of a citizen with a sound and well- 

 developed body, as well as an instructed mind. 



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