ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests only that educators and social psychologists must take the 'scientific' attitude– which dominates educators and social psychologists thinking far more than they suspect– with a pinch of salt. Educators and social psychologists do, in fact, find themselves using words and phrases which suggest that the mind of a man is like a machine, and which suggests the influence of such sciences as mechanics, physics and chemistry. The chapter considers the way in which the educational organisation of the country functions in relation to mental health can be seen to correspond with the 'scientific' view of mental health. It discusses that the nature of the pressures teachers should or could do about: the headmaster and other teachers in the institution, governors of the school or state authorities, parental and public opinion, the expectations of the children themselves, and the examination system. The well-known public boarding schools and the grammar schools are the home of the ideal child.
