Excerpt from The Industrial State: A Social and Economic History of England
The establishment by State of a system of compulsory 'continuation' of education beyond the stage reached in elementary schools is a step whose significance the country has hardly begun to realise. Continuation schooling is distinguished alike from primary and secondary by the immensely important fact that it is intended for young citizens who are at the same time earning their livelihood. This in some ways is bound to have, and in others it ought to have, a most far-reaching effect on the character of the education provided. Compulsion of those who are no longer young children is sure to break down in a democracy unless they themselves can be really and continuously interested. Guidance and advice there must be on the one side; but on the other there must be a degree of freedom of choice such as has never before been furnished by educational machinery. This will be true from the first, even while the limit of compulsion is left at the age of sixteen; it will be far more true when the age is raised to eighteen. To secure the willing attendance of students the one thing essential will be to persuade them that the courses of instruction have some actual bearing upon life.
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