ABSTRACT
Early in April 1928 a joint Labour Party/TUC 90-page document was published covering the whole field of public education with a foreword by Ramsay MacDonald in which he stated:
Labour approaches the problem from the experience of the elementary school and the workshop, the mine and the field. To it, the school is not a luxury that may be limited in a fit of economy, but a necessity that can be starved only at the national peril. The impetus that the short-lived Labour Government gave to everyone engaged in teaching was but a proof of what value it placed upon education and what enthusiasm it would spend to put it on a satisfactory footing. 1
