ABSTRACT
It is the duty of the schools to preserve culture—the best that has been thought and said—and to hand it on reverently, to an élite class. During the twentieth century, this élite has rapidly increased in size, and the grammar school in particular has extended its influence into new areas of society. Education, in the second half of the twentieth century, must be prepared to help in the process by which culture changes and develops and must face the difficult and complicated task of spreading it throughout society. One particular danger which the grammar school faces today is that in combination with the university it will produce 'a rootless, socially mobile intellectual' who is narrowly specialised and uninterested in leisure-time 'cultural' activities. The school has to act as a bridge between the world of the educated and the environment of the child; this bridge must be a broad and comfortable way, with gentle gradients and free from obstacles.
