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PREFACE Tms book contains interesting stories about schools, and somé vivid descriptions of school life. They are taken írom biographies, autobiographies and fiction, and deal with schools from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is hoped that the reader will enjoy the extracts sufficiently to want to read many of the books írom which they come. Priváté schools were nőt subject to inspection in this country until the Education Act of 1944. It was largely due to writers that the defects of many of these schools were revealed to the public. Dickens wrote that priváté schools exemplified "the monstrous neglect of education in England", and that they thrived because the Government did nőt provide schools, and because "any mán who had proved his unfitness fór any other occupation" was free to open a school anywhere. Evén at Lowood, a school run by a relígious body, there is harshness in the attitűdé of Mr. Brocklehurst, the manager of Lowood, towards the children, and in the attitűdé of Miss Seatcherd, the assistant mistress, towards Helen Burns, the clever pupil whom she hated. On the other hand, somé teachers are presented as worthy of their pupils5 fullest admiration. Sir Winston Churchill revered his old headmaster at Harrow much as Tóm Brown revered Dr. Amold in Tóm Brown's Schooldays. Most of the extracts deal with the pást, bút two modem schools are included, a viliágé school and a comprehensive school. Miss Read shows how a sympathetic and inventive headmistress of a viliágé school occupies children on a snowy day; Mrs. Chetwynd shows how a comprehensive school plans to develop the varied talents of its diverse pupils. The selection begins in the sixteenth century. In 1536 England had many grammar schools and a greater proportion of the population went to grammar schools than at any time between 1536 and 1902. Although the Reformatáon created a few new schools, including the