Introduction

While Anglo-German political relations have enjoyed rather more than the usual run of ups and downs over the past century or so, British interest in educational provision – whether in Prussia, or in Weimar or Nazi or post-war Germany – has been demonstrably sustained. There is a certain historical inevitability in the fact that in recent years – that is, at a time of considerable economic difficulty – educationists and policy makers in the British Isles have devoted very serious attention to education in Germany.