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It is reasonable to look forward-as does the Legislature of Texas-to the day when they will be, in the words of John Bright, "one people and one language and one law and one Political union, however, cannot precede the economic and cultural union of which it is the expression. The future of mankind-nothing less-depends on the degree to which the United States and ourselves are able, in peace as in war, to act in concert. Common action needs common understanding-of each other's ways of life, ideas, and institutions. Here is a gigantic task of information and interpretation which will tax to the full the resources of the British Council and of the Ministry of Information. In this task The Journal of Education hopes to play its part. we must make every effort by reading and by study to learn more about each other. The knowledge gained will inform future action. Isolation. N his Report for 1940 as President of Columbia University, New York, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler is outspoken on the subject of isolation. Civilization, he says, cannot rest upon the theory that nations are separated and isolated from each other. Universities must propagate the true gospel. Dr. Butler schedules a long list of European universities no longer "significant ", including the University of Paris," the mother of us all ", reduced to silence. Those that have survived the cataclysm should "strengthen the university tradition of knowledge, of interpretation, and of leadership in the instruction and guidance of public opinion". Possibly Dr. Butler exaggerates the influence of the "scholars and graduates of Oxford and of Cambridge, of St. Andrews, of Edinburgh, and of Glasgow " in forming public opinion in Great Britain. These have issued few protests or even words of caution and advice during the past twenty years of facile descent into the present world. Dr. Butler has EDUCATION is, perhaps, the most important field always been a strong supporter of the League of Nations. in which the English-speaking nations need to get acquainted with one another. It was a fine idea to send medical students to the States to comCo-operation in plete their training. Might it not be Education. possible to dispatch a contingent of young people to study over there methods of post-war reconstruction, of social planning, and of common action? Last summer's evacuation of children was, we hope, only a minor prelude to what will happen when the Atlantic lanes are safe once more. We hope, too, that the time will come when it is considered normal for teachers, both at the school and at the university levels, to exchange posts with transatlantic colleagues. We have much to learn from America, and we believe we can offer something in exchange. Americans, stirred by the realization that the ancient courage and steadfastness of our people still endure, are eager to know more about us. Since closer contacts are not now available, The United States, by leaving that foundling on Europe's doorstep, must take its share of the responsibility for chaos. This moral obligation is recognized by the support America is now giving in the war. If there are dangers in turning the temple of knowledge into a political forum, never has the need been greater for guidance based on trained and informed judgment. THE International Institute Examinations Enquiry financed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York has now wound up its work, but after making its final grant the Corporation offered a further Research in sum of 10,000 dollars for educational Education. research to be paid as equivalent amounts were raised on this side. The Leverhulme Trustees very generously provided a sum of £1,000 which, with a further £1,000 provided by the Carnegie Corporation, makes a sum of £2,000 available for the |