ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes to examine the contents of Michael Sadler's essay on An English Education for England, bearing in mind Mallinson's fundamental convictions about the influence of "the cultural heritage" and "national character": and to imply what relevance arguments put forward in the context of the first world war may have to the educational situation in the United Kingdom. For the Redbrick Vice-Chancellor, who had been led into his convictions about the importance of secondary education as a result of his early career in Adult Education, the problem of how to educate the masses remained a major issue. So it remains after a multiplicity of post-war Reports, and two major attempts in the Education Acts of 1918 and 1944 to extend and reform the education of the rank and file in the State schools, and to devise workable schemes of part-time education for young wage-earners.
