ABSTRACT
A great wave of educational enthusiasm swept over the continents after the First World War. Missionaries of education joined the missionaries of religion; they went to foreign countries, to China, Japan, India, to the Pacific Islands, to Africa. All over the world more and more colleges and universities were built with beautiful libraries and well-equipped laboratories; even the most corrupt governments felt compelled to dazzle their citizens with at least some monumental school buildings. Whereas political and economic reforms require courage and sacrifice, education costs relatively little; often the sacrifice is on the part of youth who cannot defend themselves against the sins or stupidities of the older generation. Certainly if we could show the gigantic structure of modem education to the visionaries of earlier centuries they would believe that their dream had come true.
