Excerpt from The English Citizen: The State and Education

It seems necessary to say a few words as to the scope and aim of this treatise. The growth of our State system of National Education is a matter so recent that it is not enough to describe the details of arrangements as they actually exist. If they are to be properly understood, we must pass in review the efforts which were first made, the compromises effected, the changes and modifications introduced, during the last fifty years. At every point our national education system bears traces of its peculiar growth, and shows itself to be the result of compromise.

Had the limits assigned to the volumes of this series permitted, it might have been desirable to refer to two other matters. The first of these is the further development of the system as indicated, on the one hand, in the changes recently introduced, and now engaging most serious attention, whose object is to mitigate any undue rigidity in the Code which the Education Department administers; on the other hand, in the extension of the influence of the State to Secondary Education, already accepted in Scotland, and likely soon to occupy attention as regards England. The second is a comparison of other systems with our own.

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