"Every scheme of education being, at bottom, a practical philosophy, necessarily touches life at every point. Hence any educational aims which are concrete enough to give definite guidance are correlative to ideals of life—and, as ideals of life are eternally at variance, their conflict will be reflected in educational theories."
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Percy Nunn
1923 – 1924
(28 December 1870 – 12 December 1944) was a Professor of Education from 1913 to 1936 at . He was the president of the for the academic year 1923–1924 and was knighted in 1930.
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