ABSTRACT
Curiosity about other human communities was almost on a par with reading Buckland's Curiosities of Natural History, provided the books read were not too heavily larded with information about certain bizarre customs indulged in by the uncivilized pagans. Any other endeavour is little more than museum-work or educational tourism-a bland surveying of the curiosities of education in distant parts, usually with the implication that the practice of education at home is true educational 'civilization'. The countries with rich, ancient cultures like Italy, Austria, or France might have seemed much more likely centres of educational interest, or even such parvenu industrial countries as the British Isles. The whole of a country's enterprises need the fullest possible development of every material and resource as a contributory and complementary part of the total growth; and that refers especially to the human beings whose endeavours sustain those enterprises.
