Echoes of the ‘great debate’

Abstract

These famous lines were of course written by a Hellenistic poet centuries after the death of the philosopher Heraclitus. Strangely I am beginning to get the same nostalgic feeling about Robert Lowe, the nineteenth century protagonist of payment by results. For Lowe's educational philosophy had one great virtue: it recognised that the schools could be either cheap or efficient, but that cheapness and efficiency (and for that matter high cost and inefficiency) could not walk hand in hand.

Citation

Fowler, G. (1977), "Echoes of the ‘great debate’", Education + Training, Vol. 19 No. 4, pp. 101-102. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb016497