"If 'politics'--even politics as an art culled from the classics, from
_pro-German_[1] economists and historians, from poets such as Shelley,
and from _German_[1] higher critics of the Bible--were taught to fifth
form boys with crude impressionable minds, the result would be
Bolshevism. We agree that under careful guidance much of ultimate
political value can be taught from history and literature. But it must
be done with infinite care, and opinions must be excluded from the
teaching. That is the difficulty."--_Contemporary Review_.

"Clever boys will learn their politics for themselves."--_Saturday
Review_.

"The public schools have for years past covered their quiet
infiltration of Conservative principles with a camouflage of strict
neutrality. Teachers though they are, the authors do not seem quite to
realise what a formidable protective device this banning of the modern
history which we call politics has been, and what obstacles have to be
overcome before the advice given in their little book is generally
taken."--_Westminster Gazette_.

Two great objections have to be met if Politics is to become the
central subject in our public school education. The desirability of
such a change may be urged from many points of view; and the practical
results obtained during the course of our recent experiment seemed to
us even more valuable than preliminary theorising had led us to expect.
Once make a boy think about the life of his own time and the great
principles whose fight for mastery he is witnessing; once make him
wonder about the actual machinery by which his world is moved; once set
him speculating about the meaning of the universe and of his own
existence; and you have created such a spirit of eager enthusiasm and
inquiry, that at last that development of the individual personality is
achieved which, as every great educationist since Plato has told us,
must be the aim of all who desire to be more than mere teachers.
Modern History, Politics, Sociology, Economics, Ethics, even
_Metaphysics_--we may class all these under the broad heading of
Politics, for one and all they deal with the life and destiny of the
individual as a member of human society and a part of the Universe.
There is no human being who, at least while he is young, does not feel
a keen interest in such things; the deepest waters are stirred and the
classroom becomes the meeting-place of minds engaged in an exciting
adventure instead of being, a