Cosmographia: A Librarian's World

Abstract

THE NEWLY APPOINTED HEADMASTER of a church primary school in the North, from which no pupil had been known to proceed to grammar school, transformed his staff's attitude to education by linking the curriculum firmly to the children's own use of books, with phenomenal results, including a steady stream of “11‐plus” successes. Another headmaster, of one of those unfortunate “all‐age” schools which are, at last, disappearing, reported to his governors that the average reading age of the school had risen by six months within a year of the opening of a good library.

Citation

(1967), "Cosmographia: A Librarian's World", New Library World, Vol. 68 No. 11, pp. 319-321. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb038027