ABSTRACT
Education for social work in a formal sense began more or less simultaneously in the 1890s in Amsterdam, London and New York. The real explosion in education for social work in these and other countries did not come until after 1945. The social aspect of total welfare is emerging as something which exists in its own right rather than simply as an adjunct of health, education, social security or rural extension work. The expansion of education for social work by the founding of many new schools, as well as by curriculum improvements and extensions in existing schools, has been quite spectacular in the period between 1945 and the early 1960s. The difficulties with which schools of social work struggle are inherently the same, whether in old or new situations. Schools of social work have sometimes been founded almost haphazardly by little groups of private people with a minimum of financial resources.
