Excerpt from A Short History of National Education: In Great Britain and Ireland The gathering together in one great and com prehensive collection examples and types of all the grades and various phases of National Education throughout the United Kingdom, as it exists to day, seemed to me to offer a unique and most appropriate Opportunity for presenting a short and concise history of its early beginnings and subse quent developments, so that the results of the present might be studied in the light of the past, and lessons for the future gathered therefrom. With this idea I asked Mr. T. Ll. Humber stone to write the sketch which is here presented and in order to point the contrast between the present and the past, some illustrations are em bodied in the pamphlet, which will, I hope, render it both more interesting by the comparisons thus supplied and more useful for the student of education. William mather, Chairman of the British Education Section. Jame 1908. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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