Volume 16, Number 1 · January 28, 1971
The Ninnyversity?
By Lawrence Stone
Scholars and Gentlemen: Universities and Society in Pre-Industrial Britain, 1500-1700
by H.F. Kearney
Cornell, 214 pp., $6.75
The Puritan Revolution and Educational Thought
by R.L. Greaves
Rutgers, 188 pp., $7.50
Education and Jobs: The Great Training Robbery
by Ivan Berg
Praeger, 222 pp., $7.50
La Reproduction: Eléments pour une Théorie du Système d'Enseignement
by P. Bourdieu, by J.C. Passeron
Editions de Minuit (Paris), 279 pp., 20F
Like education itself, the history of education is in a bad way today, having been left far too long in the hands of professional educators. Too many educational historians write either stupefyingly boring books about educational theory, or else pious hagiographies of individual schools or universities, without reference to the larger society or even the educational system of which they are a part, and with a careful glossing over of discreditable events and persons. There is therefore every reason to welcome a book by a professional historian of established reputation, which deals with the relationship of universities to society in the English-speaking world over 200 years from 1500 to 1700, with a postscript on the nineteenth century.
Review, 11356 words
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