ABSTRACT
THE doctrine of tripartitism which, since the Spens Report, has dominated the educational scene, has envisaged for the new secondary grammar school a far more restricted role than that filled by the pre-war secondary school. This process of limitation originated with the Hadow scheme of modern schools for the education of the nonacademic child, but until the publication of the Spens Report the idea of a special technical school which would prepare for technological occupations as the secondary (grammar) schools did for the professions had not yet penetrated far beyond the circle of technical education itself. It was still assumed that the leaders of industry would come from the secondary grammar schools.
