This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION II LOCAL OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATION AND THE PERSONAL ELEMENT We have seen how Central and Local Education Authorities were established in England during the last century: how the form of the local control of education was settled by Parliament, how a national policy is provided and its continuity secured. We have seen how the local Education Committees carry out the laws and central regulations, how the mixture of popular election and co-option of special representatives provides the necessary blend of popular control and special knowledge for the working of a highly technical subject. We now come to the immediate administration by the officials; the work, as I prefer to regard it, of shouldering the burden of the teachers. These should be set free to educate with as few hindrances as possible, not only to give instruction, but to use their expert knowledge and their intimate acquaintance with the children so as to build up that development, moral, intellectual, and physical, which is the aim of education as a whole, intended to turn out citizens efficient, happy, wise, just, and good. Perhaps before now we should have sought a clear definition of the object of Educational Administration, I suggest that it is: To enable the right pupils to receive the right education from the right teachers, at a cost within the means of the State, under conditions which will enable the pupils best to profit by their training. The first point to notice about this definition is that it contains no reference to committees or their officials, and that it subordinates even teachers to pupils. This is entirely as it should be. Education is for the pupils first and last: all the rest of us are their servants. The second point open to...