Education, economy and society [antikvár]

Foreworda volume of the kind presented here, narrowly focused on the connection of education in modern society with the economy and the class structure, is perhaps liable to be misunderstood. As the authors of the Crowther Report aptly say, children are "individual human beings and the primary concern of the schools should not be with the living they will earn but with the life they will lead"; and we should not like it to be thought that we hold otherwise. We hope, however, that the following essays will induce readers to agree with us that no apology is needed for our attempt in assembling them to elucidate and illustrate the contribution that sociology can make to the understanding of education in modern society, by analyzing important as-pects of the wider social setting in which policy-makers, administrators, and teachers must work.We wish to thank Mrs. Suzanne Heintz and Mrs. Isabel Ross for their translations of chapters 4, 16, 29, 39, and 40, although we naturally take full responsibility for the edited form in which they appear.A. H. Halsey Jean Floud C. Arnold Anderson