| Comparisons may very well be odious, but it is through comparing, through establishing differences and distinctions, that we arrive at knowledge. |
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The Masters course in Comparative Education is inspired by the insights of one of the field's earliest and most eminent scholars, who noted that:
'The practical value of studying … the working of foreign systems of education is that it will result in our being better fitted to study and to understand our own.'
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'We cannot wonder at pleasure among the educational systems of the world, like a child strolling through a garden, and pick off a flower from one bush and some leaves from another, and then expect that if we stick what we have gathered into the soil at home, we shall having a living plant.'
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Michael Sadler (1900) ‘How far can we learn anything of practical value from the study of foreign systems of education?’ Reprinted 1964 Comparative Education Review, Vol.7(3), pp.307-314. |
19 June 2013
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