ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the problems caused by barriers in education and deals with new manifestations of educational isolation. It considers what may be called geographical or regional remoteness from educational opportunity. The chapter also considers the influence of ideology and religion, not so much in imposing handicaps on their adherents as in separating the adherents of one 'world view' from others, both in school and outside. The most spectacular forms of isolation associated with ideology and religion are those which derive from totalitarian forms of government. In a less spectacular form the same general attitude is revealed in theories of privileged access to 'truth' on the part of particular classes, or of particularly 'intelligent' persons, or indeed in stratified or over-departmentalized school administration. The chapter concerns communication and evocation, the educator must be perpetually on guard against all such handicaps or barriers.
