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The Post-War Surgence: The Twenties

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Desperate elation and exhaustion were part of the post-war reckoning, an emancipated disenchantment discerning an ideal in the League of Nations on the one hand and revealing bitter hostility in the General Strike on the other. The second wave of radical schools in England appeared in this decade and in their beginnings made manifest social, economic, psychological, and religious currents of the time.

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  1. E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin (London, 1905).

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  2. J. H. Whitehouse, Creative Education at an English School (Cambridge, 1928), p. 2.

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  3. See J. H. Whitehouse, America and Our Schools (Oxford, 1938).

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  4. J. H. Whitehouse, ‘Ideals and Methods in Education’, in A Boy’s Symposium (London, 1932), p. 26.

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  5. J. H. Whitehouse, The School Base (Oxford, 1943), p. 11.

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  6. J. H. Simpson, The Future of the Public Schools (Rugby, 1943), p. 6.

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  7. Also see R. Lambert, The State and Boarding Education (London, 1966).

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Stewart, W.A.C. (1968). The Post-War Surgence: The Twenties. In: The Educational Innovators. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00120-0_5

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