On Education The Future in Education and Education for a World Adrift Paperback

On EducationThe Future in Education and Education for a World Adrift\nAuthor(s): Richard Livingstone\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107622098, 978-1107622098\nSynopsis\nSir Richard Livingstone [tel] was a British classicist and university administrator, renowned for promoting the value of classical education. First published in 1954, this volume presents the content of two books which originally appeared during the early 1940s. Forming the first part of the text, The Future in Education [tel] provides an account which is largely based around perceived failures within the British education system, reflecting the view that 'It is not a question of what the ordinary boy or girl knows or does not know, when they leave school; it is a question of the interests and tastes which they carry with them into life'. Education for a World Adrift [tel], forming the latter part of the text, constitutes 'an.