The history of education, much as it has been hitherto neglected, especially in England, must have a great future before it. If we ignore the past we can not understand the present, or forecast the future. In this book I am going to speak of reformers or innovators who aimed at changing what was handed down to them; but the radical can no more escape from the past, than the conservative can stereotype it. It acts not by attraction only, but no less by repulsion. ...
