The Future of Education

Abstract

SIR NAPIER SHAW has done good service to the cause of education by the timely publication of his trenchant “Open Letter” and other essays, and although the brochure is small one, its intrinsic value is not to be measured by the exiguity of its pages The author writes with first-hand knowledge, gained partly in earlier years at Cambridge, and partly in the course of his experience as head of the Meteorologica Office. In the latter capacity he is naturally brought into contact not only with newly finished products of the university mill who are seeking employment, but with men of affairs to whom the science of common life ought to be as generally familiar as, actually, it is not.