Excerpt from Scottish Education School and University: From Early Times to 1908
When, at the suggestion of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, I undertook to write the History of Scottish Education from early times to the present day, I did so with much hesitation. The difficulty of presenting within comparatively narrow limits such an account of a large subject as would be at once solid enough to be useful to the educationist, and interesting enough to appeal to the general reader, seemed a very serious one. As I have proceeded with my task that difficulty has not disappeared. All important as education is for the well-being of a nation, it cannot be called a generally attractive subject. There is no doubt in every community a small percentage who take a special interest in it, but as a rule, it is only those who are practically or professionally in close quarters with it who give serious consideration to either the history or the details of education. While the admirably accurate, and, for the period and subject covered, exhaustive record in Grant's Burgh Schools of Scotland is a perfect storehouse of facts accompanied by eminently sensible comments, it is more a book for reference than continuous perusal. In the work which I have undertaken it is not desirable, even if it were possible, to introduce the innumerable details which Mr Grant has with most praiseworthy industry and skill brought together. My aim has been to select from them and other available sources such as are typical of the time and locality to which they belong, and present them - to use the language of Art - in an impressionist or bird's-eye view.
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