1. I do not understand why Bernbaum, in Knowledge and Ideology in the Sociology of Education (London: Macmillan, 1977), p. 17, implies that Spencer failed to see ‘that education could be an essential force in progress’.
2. For example, News from Nowhere (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970).
3. H. Laski, Introduction to Politics (London: Allen and Unwin, 1961) p. 28.
4. See especially Goodman, Growing Up Absurd (London: Gollancz, 1961).
5. A. S. Neill, Summerhill (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968). ‘I have to compromise … realising that my primary job is not the reformation of society but the bringing of happiness to some few children’, p. 35. Cf. p. 101.