MAIN PURPOSE OF EDUCATION
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, August 1. in an address to teachers in Yorkshire today, the President of the Board of Education (Mr. Oliver Stanley) said that the definite purpose of education in the present-day schools was not so much the imparting of information nor even training of the mind in any formal sense as the gradual adaptation of the child to his highly complicated social environment.
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Evening Post, Issue 29, 3 August 1936, Page 11
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70MAIN PURPOSE OF EDUCATION Evening Post, Issue 29, 3 August 1936, Page 11
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