Abstract
IN the plea for devising an education which would secure for us representatives capable of co-operating intelligently with technical experts in constructive social enterprise and would also teach us how to choose them, which formed one theme of his Conway Memorial Lecture (see NATTTKE of July 25, p. 139), Prof. L. Hogben uttered a warning against the teaching of science for vocational purposes which deserves close attention. He raises essentially the same question regarding all education that was raised of university education by the recent report of the University Grants Committee (see NATURE of June 27, p. 1057), and the wider question should in fact be faced before we really formulate our answer to the question, what is the purpose of university education.
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