Excerpt from Educational Administration: Two Lectures Delivered Before the University of Birmingham in February, 1921
Educational Administration is one Of those subsidiary services which are in themselves Without value except in so far as they secure the success Of their Object. Learning and teaching are the first and chief acts Of education, but even in their simplest form they involve the beginnings Of administration, which in the earliest stage devolves solely upon the teacher. Even the Irish ‘hedge-school’ involved, I suppose, the selection Of a hedge, and when it comes to the provision Of a book and a pencil, we are face to face with the supply Of school materials. In private schools even today the whole administration is in the hands Of the head master, but when the acceptance Of education is made a duty Obligatory, on every child in the state there arises the need for setting the teachers free to practise their art and for giving the work Of educational administration to be carried out by Officials upon a correspondingly extensive scale.
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