Excerpt from Education and Social Life

The plan of this book will be found outlined on pages 7-9. The historical and practical questions which are there sketched arise whenever an endeavour is made to relate education to social life.

There are many people for whom social betterment has a powerful fascination. They respond to its claims with conspicuous enthusiasm. But if account be taken of the time and energy which social benefactors spend, and also of the net results of their labours, it must be frankly confessed that disappointment is often experienced by most of them. They attempt much, but little is accomplished.

Why is the rate of social progress so slow?

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