Education and the Good Life

I grabbed this book for free at the Book Thing knowing nothing about it. I was looking to learn more about education as a secondary teacher. Interestingly, Russell spends most of the book discussing principles for early childhood and the forming of character. This made it for me a book much more about parenting than about teaching. He has a lot of insights but some of it is rather particular to England in the 1920s for a person with sufficient means to employ maids and chefs, and send their children to boarding schools. You also see elements that are badly out of date (possibly most jarringly the positive use of the word “eugenics”). If you can get past these moments there are a lot of things I found valuable.