ABSTRACT
Lord Russell was an ardent leader of those who held that education ought to emphasise scientific methods of inquiry rather than the transmission of a settled body of knowledge. From 1927 to 1932 he and his wife, Dora Winifred Black, directed the activities of an experimental school for young children. Lord Russell had wide personal experience with a variety of educational problems. The flashes of wit that Lord Russell displays in the selections which follow point up the struggle between those who advocate inflexible doctrines and those who advocate freedom in education. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which has only the level of education to be expected among policemen, considers itself competent to withhold visas from the most learned men in Europe on grounds which every person capable of understanding the matters at issue knows to be absurd.
