Includes Index.

Introduction: The Social Role of the School. -- John Dewey on Education. -- Some Social and Ideological Roots of Modern Education: Implications of Universal Literacy. Present Problems of Organization. -- Some Problems in the Provision of Academic Education. -- Prolegomena to a Consideration of Technical Education. -- The Education of the Less Able Child.

In this work, the author seeks to reveal some of the inadequacies and incoherences of the industrial-bureaucratic state and to examine the part that education might play in the provition of a more humanly satisfying existence. He points out the inconsistency between the presure towards egalitarianism and the hierarchical demands of 'meritocracy'.