Dr. L. P. Jacks has printed the spirited address on
Education as a Mission which he gave to the Educational Associations on December 28th last (University of London Press, ls. net). He put the claims of education very high because it is " a power which has the central interests of humanity in its keeping." He recalled the fundamental idea of Plato's " Laws "—the educa- tional State—and, while admitting that education could not dominate every other department of the State, he urged that it should not be dominated by any other interest. He would claim Dominion status for education and sever it from ordinary politics. " Instead of being a mark of superiority which 'sepa- rates one class from another, education will become the bond of union which unites them all." Dr. Jacks, in his paradoxical way, has forcibly restated a great truth that needs to be impressed on the public mind.
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