Education and the Social Order.

Scarce in the jacket. The first edition of this pedagogical essay by Bertrand Russell on the education of individual citizens and its relationship to the needs of the state. Scarce in the original dustjacket.

It was published the same year as his former wife's, Dora Black, similarly themed work In Defence of Children. Together they had experimented with opening their own progressive school, Beacon Hill, in 1927 with a view to educating their children in the company of others, and doing away with excessive discipline and religious instruction. However, it proved a failure, with Russell later blaming it on an 'undue proportion of problem children' who were 'cruel and destructive' (Autobiography).

First edition, first impression; 8vo (19.5 x 14 cm); ownership inscription in pen to front free endpaper, ads to rear; publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top-edge stained blue, beige typographic dustjacket, price-clipped, light ring mark to upper-cover of cloth, jacket a little soiled, spine darkened, jacket edges slightly frayed, very good; 254, [2]pp.

Blackwell/Ruja A63.