Even before 1918 we had traveled far from the doctrine of 1870, that "elementary" education was the education of a special class which would obtain no other - what the Committee of Council called in 1839 education "suited to the condition of workmen and servants" (R. H. Tawney)

Even before 1918 we had traveled far from the doctrine of 1870, that "elementary" education was the education of a special class which would obtain no other - what the Committee of Council called in 1839 education "suited to the condition of workmen and servants"

R. H. Tawney

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