Workers Education In The England & The United States

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WORKERS EDUCATION IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES WORKERS 5 EDUCATION IN ENGLAND THE UrniED STATES BT MARGARET T. HODGEN LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER CO, LTD. NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON CO. 1925 God said I am tired of fangs, I suffer them no more , Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor, I will have never a noble, No lineage counted great, Fishers, choppers and ploughmen Shall constitute a state PREFACE IT is now five years since the first paragraphs of this book were written. The task seemed an easy one then. Labour Colleges were new and few. Their objectives were well defined, their future clearly indicated in glow ing editorials. The best part of it all to a modern in a hurry to examine, describe and pass on to something else, was the fact that Workers Education seemed to have burst fully grown upon a waiting world, uncom plicated by a bothersome period of youth and delight fully free of educational antecedents, difficult to trace and to value. It was not until an effort was made to press the study beyond contemporary manifestations of working-class demand for education that real obstacles were encountered. Of course, it is hardly fitting for a research worker to complain of poverty of material. His job is to find it anyhow. Hoping, however, that a word to those who have lived and worked in the labour movement may be sufficient, the author would like to mourn the absence of working-class biography. By whom could richer and more significant human records have been kept What lives have been more dramatic than those of the men who have led and followed the fortunes of trade unionism But cave-men who carved their annals in solid rock have told us more about themselves than generations of silent workers. Labour and labour leaders have a certain biographical responsibility to the future. The English have begun to realize it. Perhaps Americans will soon. In the absence of such documentary evidence as only the workers themselves could have supplied, re

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