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Title: The School and the World

Author: Victor Gollancz and David Somervell

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THE SCHOOL AND THE WORLD

by

VICTOR GOLLANCZ and DAVID SOMERVELL

Authors of "Political Education in a Public School"

London
Chapman & Hall, Ltd.
1919

TO

THE SCHOOL

WHICH BOTH WE

AND THOSE WHO DIFFERED FROM US

SOUGHT TO SERVE

PREFACE

In December, 1917, the present writers wrote a little book entitled
"Political Education in a Public School," in which they put forward
their views as to what the aims and methods of a modern liberal
education should be. They also described certain experiments which
they had been permitted to make in one of our old English Public
Schools, experiments which both illustrated the authors' principles and
tested their value. In July, 1918, that book was published.

But in the intervening seven months several things had happened. On
the one hand, "Political Education" had produced further striking
evidence of its power over boys' intellects and characters, evidence
altogether more striking than anything that had occurred up to the time
of writing the book. On the other hand, the movement in the full tide
of its success ran upon rocks and has been, for the time being at any
rate, utterly and completely destroyed. The authors have left the
school in which their experiments were made.

When the book was published, its reviewers in the press raised one by
one a series of problems which we had already encountered in a
practical shape in the course of our work, problems hardly touched on,
however, in our book, which was devoted to exposition rather than
argument. Such problems were: How far is political propaganda
inseparable from political education, and in what respects is such
propaganda desirable or undesirable? How can political differences
among the masters themselves be made to p