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Education

In: Lionel Robbins

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  • D. P. O’Brien

    (University of Durham)

Abstract

Robbins is indissolubly associated in the British public’s mind with the 1963 Robbins Report.1 Although he was, throughout his professional career, engaged in and passionately committed to education, it is this report which accounts for much of Robbins’s fame with the wider public, and it is probably better to take his involvement with it as a starting point for the discussion in this chapter. In his Autobiography,Robbins gives an account of how he was, to his surprise, summoned by R. A. Butler and asked to chair the Committee on Higher Education.2 He relates how he was determined to refuse the job because, in particular, he was already launched upon what he was convinced was his last chance to write a major work on economics. Indeed there were ‘dozens of things I wanted to do before the decline of my mental and physical powers set in, rather than spend all my time on the conduct of a government committee’.3

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  • D. P. O’Brien, 1988. "Education," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Lionel Robbins, chapter 6, pages 73-86, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-09683-1_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-09683-1_6
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