ABSTRACT
Education and Economics In public education as it exists at the present day in Western countries we have found, in previous chapters, various features which called for criticism. There are those who hold that whatever is amiss in education, or, for that matter, in anything else, has its source in a bad economic system. I do not myself believe this; I incline to the view that under any economic system there will be a certain amount of stupidity and a certain amount of love of power, each of which will stand in the way of the creation of a perfect educational system. Nevertheless, the influence of economic factors on education is undoubtedly profound, and not always superficially obvious. I shall endeavour, in this chapter, to isolate the economic factor in education at various times and in various countries.
