ABSTRACT
This chapter considers by what devices some kinds of schooling or training are 'priced out' of the reach of persons, families, or communities. An abundance of excuses and hindrances hampers the school progress of rural children everywhere, sometimes in relatively advanced countries. In addition to appeasing the gods and giving instruction in sacred matters, they often hand on great works of literature and may also give some initiation into philosophy; but so far from contributing to scholastic progress of other kinds they may actually be a hindrance. For very life, let alone progress, people must have technological and social transformation of the most radical kind. The myth of 'evolution' in relation to industrial progress has been exploded in most parts of the world since the middle of the nineteenth century. The most determined and progressive leaders of advance in countries undergoing rapid transformation tend therefore to use all means within their power to retain long-standing cultural ingredients and formative relationships.
