Originally published in 1945. This book is concerned with the secondary school as it developed since the 1902 Education Act. The author points out the strengths and weaknesses and makes suggestions for their improvement. Chapters are devoted to School Certificate, Religion in Education, Curriculum and Co-education, among other problems. The recent Act and the many official reports on relevant topics are discussed and some of the author's misgivings are stated.
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Education GeneralINDEX
Agreed Syllabus, 6–7, 83, 86, 88–9, 90–1
Agriculture, 32–4, 76, 120, 121
Air Training Corps, 45
Architecture, 79, 118
Art, 4, 10–11, 24, 27, 36, 79, 118, 119, 124
Assembly, 90–1
Assistant Masters:
appointment of, 46
salaries of, vii, 52–3, 56, 100, 135
recruitment of, 50–3, 135
position of, 18, 46, 48, 53–5 135–6
Blake, William, 138
Boarding Schools, v, 57–8, 61, 65–6, 69, 129
Brereton, J. L.: The Case for Examinations (43 footnote)
B.B.C., 1, 66, 76
Burnham Scale, 53, 56, 135
Butler, R. A., 133
Cambridgeshire Syllabus of Religious Teaching (1939), 83, 86, 90–1
Cambridgeshire Village Colleges, 32–4, 110
Church of England, 82, 89, 97
Citizenship, 1–4, 18, 68–80, 91–2, 97, 117, 125, 137
Classics, 4, 10–11, 25, 27, 73, 90, 112, 115–16, 123, 124
Co-education, 84, 93–9 Commercial subjects, 10, 24, 27, 103
Conservative Party Committee’s Report on Education, 59
Cranmer, Archbishop, v, vii
Curriculum, 4–5, 1...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- I. WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT
- II. HOW A GRAMMAR SCHOOL WORKS
- III. SOME CRITICISMS
- IV. SCHOOL CERTIFICATE
- V. STAFFS AND HEAD MASTERS
- VI. PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- VII. EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP
- VIII. RELIGION IN SCHOOLS
- IX. CO-EDUCATION
- X. THE MULTI-LATERAL SCHOOL
- XI. CURRICULUM AND TEACHING METHODS
- XII. CONCLUSION
- INDEX
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