ABSTRACT
The early chapters of J. W. Adamson, A Short History of Education may be used side by side with S. J. Curtis, History of Education in Great Britain, the latter valuable for its concern with north-country history. There is a short account of the history of Scottish education by Professor H. M. Knox, Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Scottish Education, 1696-1946. The new interest in scientific method tends to be neglected in an otherwise good book on the continental background, W. H. Woodward, Studies in Education during the Age of the Renaissance, 1400-1600. The revolution in productive processes and distribution, the formation of closer lines of communication, and the arrival of modern machinery of social administration are all linked with fresh attitudes to education. That it was in the public interest that all should have an irreducible minimum of literacy and numeracy was in part the lesson of foreign experience.
