Education and the Good Life.

Abstract

Bertrand Russell's writings are always interesting; one accordingly takes up a book of his with agreeable anticipations. It is an interesting, thought-provoking book; but we have not found it "thrilling," "eloquent" or "fascinating," to enumerate some of the terms that have been applied to it by reviewers. More appropriate seems the judgment of John Dewey, that "the chief characteristic of the book is enlightened empirical common sense." This is an accurate characterization, and it is no mean praise. The work is a practical study of elementary education from the standpoint of one who is a careful observer of childhood and who has a philosophical mind. The title is rather misleading. "Education and the Good Life" suggests something broader than a study of elementary education, and this book is not that. In fact, all of it except one chapter devoted to the university confines itself to a study of childhood and

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