MORALIZING SCIENCE - THE USES OF SCIENCES PAST IN NATIONAL EDUCATION IN THE 1920S

The present interest of Englishmen in education is partly due to the f act that they are impressed by German thoroughness. Now let there be n o mistake. The war has shown the effectiveness of German education in certain departments of life, but it has shown not only its ineffective ness, but its grotesque absurdity in regard to other departments of li fe, and those the departments which are, even in a political sense, th e most important. In the organization of material resources Germany ha s won well-merited admiration, but in regard to moral conduct, and in regard to all that art of dealing with other men and other nations whi ch is closely allied to moral conduct, she has won for herself the hor ror of the civilized world. If you take the whole result, and ask whet her we prefer German or English education, I at any rate should not he sitate in my reply.(1)