H. F. Heath, Ph.D., Director of Special Enquiries at the Board of Education.
H. J. Mackinder, M.A., late Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
R. D. Roberts, D.Sc., Secretary of the Gilchrist Educational Trust.
Professor Michael E. Sadler, LL.D., Professor of the History and Administration of Education in the University of Manchester.
John Struthers, C.B., LL.D., Secretary to the Scotch Education Department.
PREFACE.
THE component parts of the British Empire are so remote and so different from one another, that it is evident that the Empire can only be held together by sympathy and understanding, based on widely diffused knowledge of its geography, history, resources, climates, and races. It is obvious that if this knowledge is to be effective it must be imparted to the coming generation. In other words it must be taught in the Schools of the Empire.