In particular secondary education, but also the provision of school libraries, and the incidence of comment on education by professional Australian educators.
2.
KandelI. L.Types of Administration. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1938.
3.
Ibid., 32.
4.
Ibid., 13, 14.
5.
Dr. Cunningham edited a volume containing the pith of all the N.E.F. addresses under the title: Education for Complete Living. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1938.
6.
Ibid., 665–668.
7.
Ibid., 661–664.
8.
Ibid., 663.
9.
This lecture was given annually in honour of the first Professor of Education at Melbourne University. Kandel's 1937 lecture was entitled: “The Strife of Tongues”, ibid., 24–45.
10.
Dewey was not actually named in the lecture, though the allusions to his position are quite unmistakable. J. L. Childs, with whom Dewey was associated in publication, is quoted with disfavour.
11.
In conversation with the present writer.
12.
Op. cit., vi.
13.
New Horizons in Education, No. 4 (New Series), Autumn 1950, 3.
14.
Ibid. The accuracy of this observation might well be doubted.
15.
Ibid., 39–42.
16.
Ibid., 35–38.
17.
New Horizons in Education, No. 7 (New Series), Winter 1951, 24–26.
18.
Ibid., 25.
19.
20.
Ibid., 26.
21.
New Horizons in Education, No. 18 (New Series), Summer 1957–1958, 41–43.
22.
Ibid., 41.
23.
Ibid., 42.
24.
This report bore the title: “Education Officer's Visit to Australia”, and was published in New Horizons in Education, No. 19 (New Series), Autumn 1958, 11–25.
25.
Ibid., 15.
26.
Ibid., 18.
27.
Ibid., 19.
28.
Ibid., 18.
29.
Hence the title of his book, Assumptions Underlying Australian Education. Melbourne: A.C.E.R., 1955.
30.
It is interesting that the last of our visitors, R. W. B. Jackson, did, in fact, take up a quite different stance from that of Butts on the primary function of the school. In this connection, of Jackson, Emergent Needs in Australian Education, section 38, 21, with Butts, Assumptions Underlying Australian Education, 5, 59.
31.
There is no necessary implication here that the Wyndbam Committee drew heavily for its findings on Butts' report. Its hearings and researches were already well advanced when Butts' conclusions were made available, though of course they had not concluded.
32.
Ibid., 47.
33.
Ibid., 59.
34.
Melbourne: A.C.E.R., 1962.
35.
We wonder whether Jackson would have been treated to the interesting variant: “She's apples!”?
36.
Ibid., 4.
37.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1965.
38.
Op. cit., 5–6.
39.
In: Types of Administration
40.
Ibid., 55.
41.
42.
Op. cit., 27.
43.
44.
Op. cit., 36.
45.
Op. cit., 18.
46.
Ibid., 19.
47.
Tertiary Education in Australia, Report of the Committee on the Future of Tertiary Education in Australia to the Australian Universities Commission. Vols. I and II, August 1964.
48.
Types of Administration, 88.
49.
P. xviii. Italics inserted by the present writer.
50.
Op. cit., 6. Italics inserted by the present writer.
51.
For a fuller argument of this case, seeAndersenW. E.“The Role of the Universities in Teacher Education: The Perspective of the Martin Report”, Journal of Christian Education, VIII, 2, September 1965, 94–103.
