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262 BOOK REVIEWS It is probably inevitable that with nine different lecturers the quality of the lectures should vary considerably. Halsey's seemed to me to be easily the best, those by Peters and Eppel to be good, and the others to be thoroughly disappointing. Halsey deals with the question of how the changing pattern of education is related to the problem of moral education, which for him, as a sociologist, is the problem of the preparation of individuals for participation in social life or acceptance of social rules. He outlines clearly the two main approaches to this associated with Marx and Durkheim, and concludes that we no longer have a working-class education to " gentle the masses", but a selective education to tame the individual. The main part of the lecture by Peters is concerned with what he calls the paradox of moral education: "It is this: given that it is desirable to develop people who conduct themselves rationally. intelligently and with a fair degree of spontaneity, the brute facts of child development reveal that at the most formative years of a child's development he is incapable of this form of life and impervious to the proper manner of
Australian Journal of Education – SAGE
Published: Oct 1, 1964
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