ABSTRACT
Education has so many aspects that it is impossible in a book of this length even to give an outline of its general development in Britain. Instead we shall have to focus our attention on one particular, and often neglected question – the relationship between education (in the sense of formal, institutionalised instruction) and economic change. Even within the confines of this narrow brief it will be impossible to sketch more than one or two impressions of the more significant features of the nineteenth-century experience.
