An account of the development of education in England from the closing years of the eighteenth century when an attempt was first made to provide an education for all... Læs mere
An account of the progress made in the provision of education in Nottingham in the nineteenth century. This book gives a vivid picture of the growth of our educational system, seen by the administrators, parents and pupils for whom it was intended.
First published in 1974, The Rise of the Schooled Society examines the historical developments which made the argument for ‘de-schooling’—assertion that formal institutional education has outgrown its usefulness and has become an obstacle to social reform—plausible.