EDUCATIONAL PIONEER
ACHIEVEMENT IN EDUCATION, by Lynda Grier; Constable. English price, 30/-. HE life of a man who devotes himself to the reform of education tends to run to a pattern. He spends the first period of his life crying in the wilderness and treading on people’s toes,
Around middle age, if he is unlucky, he slides into oblivion. People say; "So-and-So? I thought he .was dead." A couple of centuries later he may or may not be revivified in a monograph. If he is lucky (the trodden toes having been converted or, more likely, having died off), he secures a position of some influence. His ideas become common property and he becomes ‘an elder statesman of education, respected on Royal Commissions more now for his knighthood than for the ideas of his youth. The life of Sir Michael Sadler, the subject of this workmanlike biography ran much to pattern. After taking his degree he settled down for ten years to fruitful pioneering work in adult education, For eight more years he gloried in the title of Director of the Office of Special Inquiries and Reports in what later became the English Ministry of Education. There he produced a series of research jobs of first-rate quality. Then he fell foul of thé politicians, who engineered him out of his job, and his next six years he was in the wilderness, free-lancing on educational reports and sustained by a part-time Professorship of’ Education at Manchester. At the age of 50, with a first-rate record of publications, middle age and oblivion seemed the next step. But the University of Leeds had the wisdom to offer him its Vice-Chancellorship, and the rest was, professionally, plain sailing. The Royal Commission, the knighthood, and finally the Mastership of an Oxford College followed in appropriate order. Sadler was an educational pioneer who lived to see his ideas in action. His influence on adult, university and secondary education was considerable, and Miss Grier’s book pays tribute without
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 720, 1 May 1953, Page 10
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335EDUCATIONAL PIONEER New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 720, 1 May 1953, Page 10
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