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OF ALL the schools considered in this book there is only one which was founded as part of a larger social experiment. Dartington Hall Trust began as a rural community enterprise in which the school was a necessary development which did not come right at the beginning. But we must go back before 1925 to see how all this came about.
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See Victor Bonham-Carter, Dartington Hall (London, 1958), pp. 25 ff.
See a reference to this work done by Miss Hilda Bristol in H. R. Hamley, ‘The Testing of Intelligence ’, Year Book of Education (London, 1935).
For a personal account of the system about the time that Curry was at Gresham ’s, see W. H. Auden, ‘Honour ’, in The Old School, ed. Graham Greene (London, 1934), pp. 9 –20.
W. B. Curry, The School (London, 1934), p. xii.
See W. B. Curry, Education for Sanity (London, 1947).
Article on ‘Dartington Hall ’ by W. B. Curry, in The Modern Schools Handbook, ed. T. Blewitt (London, 1934), p. 63.
E. Blishen, ‘The Lessons are Now Compulsory’, in the Daily Telegraph, 22 Apr. 1966;
A. A. Jusmani, ‘The Attitude to the Child in Progressive Educational Theory and Practice in England since 1890’ (M.Ed. thesis, University of Leicester, 1961).
H. Heckstall-Smith, Doubtful Schoolmaster (London, 1962), p. 141.
B. Russell, On Education (London, 1926), p. 9.
For a recent short account, see D. Russell, ‘What Beacon Hill Stood For ’, in Anarchy (Jan. 1967), pp. 11 –16.
A. Wood, Bertrand Russell: The Passionate Sceptic (London, 1957), p. 115.
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Stewart, W.A.C. (1972). The Post-War Surgence: the Twenties. In: Progressives and Radicals in English Education 1750–1970. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01220-6_14
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