24 MARCH 1917, Page 17

The Permanent Values its Edaration. By Kenneth Richland. (Constable and

Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Teachers will be interested in Mr. Richmond's thoughtful little essays on the famous educators, Comenius, Milton, Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Froebel, Herbart—essays which gain in value from the author's personal experience. Mr. Clutton-Brock in an introduction suggests that the great obstacle to improvement is and has always been the " tendency to associate education with status, to regard it as-a means, not to freedom of the spirit but to some kind of superiority." Yet how shall we exorcise the pedant and the prig ?