Index

Abbotsleigh school, 148–52
Aberdeen, UK, 4
Aberdeen Magazine, 8
academics see also research
1. academic families, 109
2. concept of, vii–viii, 23, 88–89
3. education academics, 32
Academy of Plato, vii, 26–28
ACER (Australian Council of Educational Research), 95–97, 163
Adams, John, 37–38, 148
Advisory Council on Education, 100
agricultural education, 65–66
Allen, L.H., 63
ALP (Australian Labor Party), 65, 70
Anderson, Francis
1. career, 36, 49–52, 56
2. marriage, 50
3. retirement, 76
4. support for Alexander Mackie, 49, 53, 56, 67
Anderson, John
1. Mackie family and, 155–56, 161–63, 165–66, 167–68
2. at the University of Sydney, 76, 154–55, 157, 167–68
3. views, 76, 154–57, 167–68
Anderson, Maybanke Susannah, 50
Anderson, R.D., 24
Anglicanism see Church of England
Angus & Robertson, 94
Area Training Organisations, 104
Armidale, NSW, 161–62, 164–65
Armidale Teachers’ College, 161–62, 164
army, John Mackie in, 158, 165–67
Arnold, Thomas, 44
arts, 6, 16, 18, 50, 58
1. see also classical and liberal education
Askew, Mark, 99
atheism see secularism and atheism
Atkinson, Meredith, 86–87
Australia
1. Alexander Mackie on education in, 86–87
2. American influence on education in, 94–95195
3. higher education in, 48–49, 95, 159–60
4. NEF in, 96–97
5. schooling in, 47
Australia: economic and political studies, 86–87
Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, 97
Australian Church, 36
Australian Club, 110
Australian College, 44
Australian Constitution, 46
Australian Council of Educational Research, 95–97, 163
The Australian Highway, 167
Australian Journal of Education, 38, 54
Australian Labor Party, 65, 70
Australian University Grants Committee, 174

Bain, Alexander, 29
Banffshire, UK, 132
Bangor college, 32–34
Bell, Andrew, 14
Berridale, NSW, 114, 116–17
Bett’s Camp, 122–25
Blackfriars college, 53–54
Blackfriars school, 63
Blue Lake, NSW, 124–25
Board, Peter
1. career, 45–46, 52–53, 65
2. childhood and adolescence, 45
3. retirement, 76–77
4. support for Alexander Mackie, 45–46, 53, 55–56, 66–68, 75
Board of Education, 77–78
Board of Examiners, 98, 100
Board of Secondary School Studies, 100
Bogie River, 4
Boyd, William, 86
Britain see also Empire
1. education research, 86
2. entrepreneurialism vs professionalisation, 12–15
3. funding of schools, 15
4. higher education in, 31, 104, 159–60
5. literary culture, 5
6. Mackie family trip to, 143–46
7. view of academics, 23
British Academy, 176
British Army, 158, 165–67
British Department of Science and Art, 22
Browne, G.S., 94
Bruce, James Fawthrop, 63
Bryce, James, 112
Burt, Cyril, 37, 85

Caird, Edward, 27, 36
Cambridge University see University of Cambridge
Campbell, Keith, 173–74
Campbell, William, 22
Canonmills, UK, 21
Carlyle, Thomas, 8
Carmichael, Henry, 44196
Carnegie Corporation, 95
Carruthers, Joseph, 48, 51–52, 65–66, 120
Castlecrag, NSW, 169
Catholic Church, 174
The cement of the universe, 177
chairs of education, founding of, 16–17, 67–68
Chalmers, Thomas, 15
child study, 59, 74
child-centred learning, 49, 59, 85, 92
Chisholm, A.R., 61
Chisolm, Maggie (née Mackie), 3–4, 144–45
Chisolm, Robert, 144
Christianity see also Protestantism
1. at Abbotsleigh school, 149–51
2. Andrew Pringle-Pattison on, 27
3. Charles Strong on, 36
4. Francis Anderson on, 36
5. Mackie family on, 29, 164
6. at the University of Sydney, 167, 174
Church of England, 149
Church of Scotland, 7–8, 15–16
1. see also parish schools
Clarke, Marian, 148
class hierarchy see also professionalism vs entrepreneurialism
1. access to secondary schools, 9–11, 163
2. access to university, 18, 157
3. Margaret Davidson Mackie and, 157, 160
4. migration and, 35
classical and liberal education, 16, 82, 91, 152
Clifford, Geraldine, 83
Cole, Percival Richard ‘Percy’ education, 63
1. at the National Institute of Education, 95
2. publications, 89–90, 93–94
3. support for Alexander Mackie, 75
4. at Sydney Teachers’ College, 63, 75
Collini, Stefan, 88–89
colonisation see Empire
Committee of Inquiry into Post Primary Education, 99–100
Commonwealth Constitution, 46
communism, 157, 161
comprehensive schools, 164, 176
Connell, William Fraser, 74, 105
Constitution, 46
Cotton, Leo, 129
country schools see rural education
credentials, introduction of see also professionalism vs entrepreneurialism
1. origin of, 47
2. in schools, 10–11, 62–63, 70–71, 99
3. in universities, 69, 71–72, 98
Cullen, William, 130
Cunningham, K.S., 96

Daniel Stewart’s College for Boys, 10–12
Darroch, Alexander, 32–33, 77, 84, 86
Darwin, Charles, 131197
David, Cara, 113, 115, 117
David, T.W. Edgeworth see Mount Kosciuszko trip
Davidson, Margaret see Mackie, Margaret (née Davidson)
Deakin, Alfred, 36
Deloraine, Tas, 130
‘Democracy and Education’, 85
‘democratic intellect’ ideal, 7–8, 18, 22, 26–27
1. see also equality in education
Department of Public Instruction, 56
1. see also state influence on education
2. critiques of, 78, 98
3. introduces credentials for schools, 10
4. role in higher education, 78, 105
5. Wallace Committee, 99–100
Deveron River, 4–5
Dewey, John, 84–85, 162–64
Dodge, Grace, 83
A dominie’s log, 140
‘Drumgrain’ residence, 137–38, 146–47
Drummond, David and Thomas, 98–99
Duncan, Annie see Mackie, Annie Burnett
Duncan, Jessie, 132–33
Duncan, John, 132–33
Dunedin, NZ, 171–73

Edinburgh, UK
1. Alexander Mackie’s birth in, 3–4
2. culture, 4–7
3. growth and urbanisation, 9
4. Mackie family trip to, 143–45
Edinburgh Academy, 9
Edinburgh High School, 9, 14
Edinburgh Ladies College, 10
education see academics; credentials; equality in education; higher education; schools; teacher training; teachers
Education and the inquiring society, 162–63
Education for complete living, 97
Education in Australia, 94
Educational Institute of Scotland, 15–16
Educational Research Series, 96
Educative teaching, 163–64
Eggleston, Frederic, 171
elementary schools see primary schools
Eleven Plus examination, 176
Elliott, W.J., 98–99
Empire, British
1. higher education in, 17–18, 35–36, 49, 77
2. schools in, 44, 49
3. ties to, 76, 87
Empire of scholars, 35
England
1. higher education in, 18–19, 78
2. influence on NSW education, 44
3. links to Scotland, 5–6, 15, 18–19
4. Mackie family in, 175–76
5. public interest in education, 87
6. schools in, 44
Enlightenment, 23–25198
entrepreneurialism see professionalism vs entrepreneurialism
equality in education, 7–8, 26–27
1. see also ‘democratic intellect’ ideal; meritocracy; public education
ethics see also philosophic idealism
1. Immanuel Kant and, 157
2. John Anderson and, 156–57
3. John Mackie and, 156, 168–71, 174, 176–77
4. Margaret Davidson Mackie and, 162–64
Ethics: inventing right and wrong, 177
Europe, viii, 24, 49
Evening News, 55–56
‘Evil and omnipotence’, 171–72
experimentalism see science

Federation, 46
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 24
Fletcher, Brian, 74
Fort Street model school, 45, 47–48, 53
France, Mackie family in, 143
Free Church, 15
Freethought Society, 155

gallery classrooms, 21
Garvin, Lucy, 133–34
gender
1. gender roles in the Mackie family, 132, 134–35, 146–48
2. in higher education, 48, 63–64, 72, 157–58
3. in schools, 20, 148–50
4. of teachers and academics, 20, 48, 63–64, 72, 132
genetics, 89
George Watson’s colleges, 10–11
Germany, viii, 24–25, 81–82
globalisation see transnationalism
Gough, Archbishop, 174
government see state influence on education
Government Training College for Teachers, 38
Great Depression, 98
Great Lake, Tas, 130
Green, J.A., 33
Green, T.H., 26
Greenwood, L.A., 151
The groundwork of teaching, 90–93

Hedley Tarn, NSW, 124
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 84
Herbart, Johann Friedrich, 25, 37
Hermes, 51
high schools see secondary schools
higher education see also scholarships; Scottish universities; teacher training; University…
1. access to, 21, 159–60
2. beginnings of, viii
3. chairs, 16–17
4. curricula in, 18–19, 21, 23, 44, 82
5. expansion of university system, 31
6. public, 65199
7. transnationalism and, 35–36
8. values, 23–24
Highland Society, 133
hiking, 112, 129–31
1. see also Mount Kosciuszko trip
history, 32, 59, 74
Hobart, Tas, 129–31
Holme, E.R., 130
‘honours’ schools, 18
Hotel Australia, 131
Hove, UK, 146
humanities see arts
Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 24
Hume, David, 177
Huntly, UK, 4–5, 145
Hurlstone Park college, 48, 53

Industrial Education Association, 83
Institute of Education, 86
intellectuals, concept of, vii, 88–89
1. see also academics
intelligence, 37, 84–85, 92–93
Is there a difference between thinking, believing and knowing?, 165
Israeli conflicts, 168
Italy, John Mackie in, 165–66

James VI of Scotland (James I of England), 6
Jewish kibbutz, 168
Jindabyne, NSW, 114–18

Kant, Immanuel, 157
Keith, UK, 132
Kelly, Gwen, 164
kindergartens, 57
Kingsburgh, Lord, 11
Knibbs, G.H., 52
knowledge, usefulness of, 84
Knox Grammar School, 152–54

Labor government, 65, 70
Labour Club, 157
Lake Albina, NSW, 126
Lake St Clair, Tas, 130
Lambert, George, 75
Lang, John Dunmore, 44
Laurie, Simon, 16–17, 19, 29
learner-centred education, 49, 59, 85, 92
Lewis, Henry, 33
liberal education see classical and liberal education
Liberal government, 65–66, 174
1. see also Carruthers, Joseph
Literary Society, 155
Locke, John, 177
London County Council, 37
Lovell, Henry Tasman, 63, 95–97

MacCallum, Mungo, 67, 75, 78
Macdonald, Catriona, 35
Macdonald, John Hay Athole, 11
Mackay, Forbes, 129
Mackay, R.W. Gordon, 87–88
Mackie, Alexander, 42
1. accommodation, 111, 135, 137–38, 160
2. at ACER, 95–97200
3. applies to University of Bristol, 34–35
4. birth and childhood, 3–4, 13
5. on the Board of Secondary School Studies, 100
6. at the British Department of Science and Art, 22
7. in Carnarvonshire, 34
8. death, 102
9. education, 11–12, 20–22, 31, 85
10. education reviews and reform, 55–62, 68, 88, 97–100
11. family life, 3–4, 131–35, 138–48, 150, 160–61, 169–70
12. at the Government Training College for Teachers, 38, 45–46
13. health, 100, 160
14. at the National Institute of Education, 95
15. publications, 28–29, 86–94
16. Simon Laurie and, 19–20
17. social life and leisure, 109–12, 129–31
  1. see also Mount Kosciuszko trip
18. on the SS Jervis Bay, 101
19. teaching at schools, 31
20. travels to Australia, 39, 43
21. at the University of Edinburgh, 19, 22–23, 27–32
22. at the University of Sydney and Sydney Teachers’ College, 20, 53–65, 67–81, 92–95, 100–103
23. at the University of Wales, 32–34
Mackie, Alexander ‘Sandy’, 169–70
Mackie, Annie Burnett (née Duncan), 136
1. accommodation, 135, 137–38, 160
2. birth and childhood, 131–34
3. career, 134–35
4. education, 131–32, 134
5. family life, 100, 108, 131–35, 138–48, 154, 160
6. social life and leisure, 135
7. on the SS Jervis Bay, 101
Mackie, Jemina ‘Jim’, 4, 145
Mackie, Joan Armiger, 169–70
Mackie, John Leslie
1. in the army, 158, 165–67
2. birth and childhood, 108, 140–48, 152–54
3. death, 178
4. education at home, 140–41, 145–47
5. family life, 140–47, 154, 169, 178
6. at Knox Grammar School, 152–54
7. at Oxford University, 157–59
8. publications, 167–68, 170–71, 176–77
9. at Sunday school, 142–43
10. at the University of York, 175–76
11. at the University of Otago, 171–73
12. at the University of Sydney, 154, 156–57, 165–67, 170, 172–75
Mackie, Maggie (Alexander’s aunt), 4
Mackie, Maggie (Alexander’s sister), 3–4, 143–45
Mackie, Margaret Davidson
1. at Abbotsleigh school, 148–52
2. birth and childhood, 138–48
3. career in teaching, 159–62, 165
4. death, 165
5. education at home, 140–41, 145–47201
6. family life, 138–40, 143–47, 154
7. on family members, 12, 131, 134–35, 146–47
8. at Oxford University, 156, 157–58
9. publications, 162–65
10. relationships, 155
11. at Sunday school, 142–43
12. at the University of Sydney, 151, 154–56, 158
Mackie, Margaret (nee Davidson), 3
Mackie, William, 3, 135, 138–39, 143
Mackie Medal, 97
MacLaurin, Henry Normand, 69, 111
MacLeod, Gordon, 111
MacNeil, Neil Harcourt, 152, 154
Macquarie Street, NSW, 110–11
Mawson, Douglas, 129
McNair Report, 104
McRae, Chris, 104
medicine, 6–7, 36
Melbourne Teachers’ Training College, 61–62
Melbourne University, 48
men and education see gender
mental testing, 74–75 see also intelligence
Menzies government, 174
Merchant Company, 9–12
Meredith, Joan Armiger, 169–70
meritocracy see also equality in education
1. growth of, 109
2. in schools, 12, 44–45, 47
3. in universities, 18, 48, 73
middle class see class hierarchy
Mind, 171
model schools, 14–16, 53, 82
1. see also Fort Street model school
Moldavia ship, 39, 43
monitorial system, 14
1. see also pupil teachers
Montessori, Maria, 92
morality see ethics
Moray House teachers’ college, 15, 21–22, 31
Morris, John, 170–71
Mount Erebus, Antarctica, 129
Mount Kosciuszko trip, 112–29
Mount Wellington, Tas, 130–31
mountaineering, 112, 129–31
1. see also Mount Kosciuszko trip
Murray, Elizabeth, 4
Murray, Keith, 174–75
Murray, Margaret, 149

National Institute of Education, 95
NEF (New Education Fellowship), 96–97
Neill, A.S., 140
Nelligan, P.J., 55
Nettleship, R.L., 26
New Education movement, 46–47, 49, 59, 96–97
New South Wales
1. critiques of education system in, 51–60, 68, 87–88, 98
2. higher education in, 46–47, 51, 53–59, 61–62, 87, 104202
3. New Education movement in, 46–47, 49, 59
4. public education in, 104
5. schools in, 44, 46–47, 53, 55–57, 61–62, 87, 175–76
6. Scottish influence in, 44–45, 133
New South Wales Tourism Department, 113
New York, US, 83
New Zealand, 171–73
‘normal schools’, 14–16, 53, 82
North America, 82, 94
North Shore, NSW, 137
North Sydney, NSW, 160
Nunn, Percy, 37, 85

O’Conor, Broughton Barnabas, 54, 61
Organ Pipes, Tas, 130
Oriel College, 156
Ormonde ship, 143
Orr, Sydney Sparkes, 171
Otago University, 171–73
Oxford University see University of Oxford

Palestine, 167–68
parish schools
1. ideal vs reality of, 7–9, 132
2. teachers in, 7, 14–16, 20
Parkes government, 47
Partridge, P.H., 156
Passmore, John, 171
Pattinson, Mark, 23
Perkin, Harold, 12–13, 23
Perry, John, 51–52
philanthropy, 9–10
Phillips, Gilbert, 92–93
philosophic idealism see also state influence on education
1. Alexander Mackie and, 28–29, 81
2. Andrew Pringle-Pattison and, 27
3. core beliefs, 26
4. Francis Anderson and, 36, 50
5. growth of, 26–27
6. Plato and, 26–29
7. progressivism vs, 83–85
8. R.L. Nettleship and, 26
9. T.H. Green and, 26
10. Witenagemote, 27
philosophy see also ethics
1. Alexander Mackie and, 30
2. German, 24–25
3. in higher education, 18, 32
4. John Anderson and, 156–57
5. Scottish, 24
Philosophy and school administration, 164
Pietsch, Tamson, 35
Plato, vii, 26–29
Poole, Dorothea, 149–51
Porcupine ridge, NSW, 122
Power, Kerin, 147, 155
Presbyterian Church, 15, 44, 142, 152
1. see also Church of Scotland
Pretty Point, NSW, 118, 120
Price, H.H., 159
primary schools, 46–47, 57, 62
1. see also Blackfriars school203
Pringle-Pattison, Andrew, 27–30
private schools, 9
Problems from Locke, 175
professionalism vs entrepreneurialism see also teacher training
1. Alexander Mackie on, 80
2. in America, 82–83
3. in Germany, 82
4. in medicine, 36
5. in teacher training, 12–15, 19, 48–49
Progressive Education Association, 85
progressivism, 84–85, 89, 91–92, 163
Protestantism, 44
1. see also Presbyterian Church
Prussian education, 24
psychology, educational see also intelligence
1. Alexander Mackie and, 30, 59, 92–93
2. Cyril Burt and, 37
3. Edward Thorndike and, 86
4. growth of, 32, 37, 86
5. Herbartian, 37
6. John Adams and Percy Nunn, 37
public education see also comprehensive schools; state influence on education
1. foundation of, 46–49
2. higher education, 47, 65, 70, 77
3. reviews of, 50–59
4. schools, 7–9, 44, 47–49, 51–52, 55, 57
The public school system of New South Wales, 51
Public Service Board, 77, 79, 104
Public Teachers’ Association, 55
pupil teachers
1. abolition in NSW, 53, 55–56, 61–62
2. Alexander Mackie as pupil teacher, 20–22, 55
3. use in NSW, 47, 50–51
4. use in the UK, 15, 19
5. use in Victoria, 62
Putnam, Hilary Whitehall, 173

Queen’s Studentships, 21
Queensland University, 65

Raggs’ Camp, 120–21
‘The refutation of morals’, 168
Reichel, H.R., 34
Reid family, 137, 152
religion see Christianity; secularism and atheism
research see also academics; Australian Council of Educational Research; science
1. areas of education research, 74
2. culture of, viii–ix, 36, 85–86
3. teacher-scholar ideal, viii–ix, 24, 162
Rockefeller Foundation, 95
rural education
1. agricultural education, 65–66
2. Margaret Davidson Mackie and, 160
3. in NSW, 160204
4. parish schools in rural Scotland, 7–9, 14, 20, 22, 132
5. in Victoria, 62
Russell, James Earl, 83, 95

scholarships, 21, 62, 70–72, 96
school achievement, study of, 74
Schooling, 89–90
schools, 26, 91–92 see also Abbotsleigh school; comprehensive schools; Knox Grammar School; model schools; primary schools; secondary schools; teachers
science, agricultural, 65–66
science in education see also psychology; research
1. Alexander Bain and, 29
2. Alexander Mackie and, 58
3. Edward Thorndike and, 83–84
4. limitations of German education, 81–82
5. role in progressivism, 89
6. Scotland leading, 86
Science of education, 25
Scotland see also Church of Scotland; ‘democratic intellect’ ideal
1. academics and teachers in, 13–14, 23, 132
2. colleges in, 77
3. Edinburgh’s association with
4. foundation of, 4–5
5. education research and ideology, 49, 84, 86
6. influences on NSW education, 44–45, 66
7. links to England, 5–6, 15, 18–19
8. Mackie family trip to, 143–45
9. migration from, 35, 44–45, 137
10. schools in, 6
11. Scottish societies in NSW, 133
Scots College, 44
Scottish universities see also University of Edinburgh
1. curricula, viii–ix, 18–19
2. graduates, 35
3. separation from colleges, 77
4. teacher training at, viii–ix, 17–19
5. teaching at, 5–7
secondary schools see also Daniel Stewart’s College for Boys; monitorial system; Sydney Girls High School
1. access to, 163
2. certificates, 10–11, 63, 98–100
3. class hierarchy of, 9–11
4. curricula, 85, 98–100
5. founding in NSW, 46–47
6. performance, 87
7. relationship with universities, 10–11, 48, 63
secularism and atheism, viii, 167, 170–71, 174
See, John, 51–52
selective schools, 176
Selfe, Maybanke Susannah, 50
sessional schools, 14–16, 53, 82205
Seth, Andrew, 27, 29–30
Seth, James, 27–28
sexism see gender
Shackleton, Ernest, 129
Simpson, Martha Margaret, 63–64
Skillen, Elizabeth, 109
Smith, S.H., 77–78, 97
Smyth, John, 25–26, 61–62
Snowy Mountains trip, 112–29
social sciences see arts
sociology, 156
Some aspects of primary and secondary education, 87–88
‘Some impressions of Palestine’, 167–68
Somerville, Oliver, 155
Somerville College, 156, 158
Spearman, Charles, 92–93
Spencers Creek, 124, 126
sport, 44, 152–53 see also hiking
state influence on education see also credentials; Department of Education; public education; Public Service Board
1. Alexander Mackie and, 53, 56, 58–59, 61–62, 87–88
2. higher education, 49, 53, 56, 58–59, 61–62, 87
3. idealism and, 26–27
4. progressivism and, 84–85
5. schools, 53, 61–62, 76
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 13–14
Stewart, James, 66
Stout, Alan Ker, 167
Strong, Charles, 36
Struthers, John, 77
Stuart, Jessie, 132–33
Stuart, Mary, 132
student-centred learning, 49, 59, 85, 92
studentships, 21, 62, 70–72, 96
Studies in contemporary education, 93–94
Studies in the theory of education, 94
study leave, 79
Sutherland, Lucy, 158, 160
Sydney, NSW, 43–44, 110–11, 131, 146
1. see also University of Sydney
Sydney Anglican Diocese, 174
Sydney College of Advanced Education, 106
Sydney Girls High School, 132–34
Sydney Morning Herald, 57, 61
Sydney Teachers’ College
1. Alexander Mackie at, 45, 53–65, 92–95
2. Annie Burnett Mackie at, 135
3. B.B. O’Conor on, 60–61
4. beginnings of, 66–67, 69–70
5. Chris McCrae at, 104
6. education reform, 54–62
7. education research, 74–75
8. Elizabeth Skillen at, 109
9. finances, 80, 94–95, 98
10. growing independence, 105–6
11. Harold Wyndham at, 74
12. institutes Diploma of Education, 69
13. Ivan Turner at, 105206
14. James Bruce at, 63
15. L.H. Allen at, 63
16. Martha Simpson at, 63–64
17. memorialising Mackie, 102
18. Percy Cole at, 63
19. Peter Board at, 45
20. popularity of, 73
21. psychology at, 92–93
22. as a public college, 77
23. staff events, 131
24. staff freedoms, 79–80
25. Teachers’ College Press, Sydney, 89–90, 94
26. University of Sydney and, 49, 53, 64–67, 69–78, 80, 98, 102, 104–6
Sydney Town Hall, 51
Sydney University see University of Sydney

Tasmania, 129–31
Tate, Frank, 95–97
teacher training see also Armidale Teachers’ College; Melbourne Teachers’ Training College; model schools; pupil teachers; Sydney Teachers’ College; Teachers’ College, Columbia
1. Alexander Mackie on, 56, 58–59, 73, 85, 90–91
2. American, 82–83, 86
3. Australian, 48–49, 56, 58–59, 61–62, 73, 76–77, 104
4. British, 16–19, 23, 32–34, 77–78, 86, 104
5. credential requirements, 62
6. Francis Anderson on, 51
7. German, 25, 82
8. The groundwork of teaching, 90–91
9. idealism and, 36
10. scientific, 85–86
11. separation of universities and colleges, 76–78
teachers see also academics; Educational Institute of Scotland; Laurie, Simon
1. demographics, 20, 72
2. developing lessons, 85
3. dominies, 7, 14–16, 20–21
4. role of, viii, 23–25, 85, 88, 91–92, 162
Teachers’ College, Columbia, 83–84, 86
Teachers’ College Press, Sydney, 89–90, 94
Teachers’ Conference, 57
Teachers’ Guild, 106
Termousheyen, ‘Toby’, 141
tertiary education see higher education
The theory of education in the Republic of Plato, 26
Thomas, G. Ross, 97–98
Thompson, John, 133
Thomson, Dugald, 133
Thorndike, Edward, 83–84, 86
Tounis College, 6
‘The training of the teacher’, 58
transnationalism, 18, 24, 26, 35–36, 94
Truth, probability and paradox, 177207
Turner, Ivan, 102, 105
Turner, John, 52

United States, 49, 82–83, 86, 94–95
universities see higher education
‘The universities and the training of school teachers’, 73
Universities Commission, 18–19
University (Amendment) Act 1912 (NSW), 70
University College, 176
University Grants Committee, 174–75
University of Aberdeen, 4
University of Adelaide, 48
University of Berlin, 24
University of Bristol, 34–35
University of Cambridge, 6–7, 23, 32, 157
University of Columbia, 83–84, 86
University of Edinburgh see also Moray House teachers’ college
1. Alexander Mackie at, 19, 22–23, 27–32
2. Andrew Pringle-Pattison at, 27–30
3. beginnings of, 6
4. chairs, 16–17, 19
5. curriculum, 6–7, 17–18, 27–30, 32, 36
6. graduate demographics, 14, 35–36
7. James Seth at, 27–28
8. medicine at, 6–7, 36
9. philosophy at, 27–30
10. reputation, 6–7
11. teacher training, 16–18, 32
University of Jena, 25
University of London, 37
University of Melbourne, 48
University of Otago, 171–73
University of Oxford
1. curriculum, 5–6
2. Mackie family at, 156, 157–59, 176
3. philosophic idealism at, 26–27
4. popularity of, 157
5. teachers and academics at, 23, 32, 157–59, 176
University of Queensland, 65
University of Sydney
1. agricultural education at, 65–66
2. Alexander Mackie at, 53, 67–69, 100–2
3. Annie Burnett Mackie at, 134
4. Chris McCrae at, 104
5. education reform, 51–53
6. Francis Anderson at, 36, 49–53
7. funding, 95, 174
8. John Anderson at, 76, 154–55, 157, 167–68
9. John Mackie at, 154, 156–57, 165–67, 170, 172–75
10. Margaret Davidson Mackie at, 151, 154–56, 158
11. medicine at, 36
12. memorialising Mackie, 102
13. as a public university, 70
14. Scottish influence, 44
15. student culture, 154–57
16. study leave, 79
17. Sydney Teachers’ College and, 49, 53, 64–67, 69–78, 80, 98, 102, 104–6 208
18. teacher training at, 48–49
19. W.F. Connell at, 105
University of Sydney Club, 111
University of Tasmania, 170
University of Wales, 32–34
University of Western Australia, 65
University of York, 175–76
upper class see class hierarchy
urbanisation, 9–11, 20

Vennard, Edward N., 137
veterinary science, 66
Victorian pupil teachers, 62
von Humboldt, Wilhelm, 24

Wade, Charles, 65
Wahroonga, NSW, 137–38
A Wahroonga childhood, 141, 145, 151
Wahroonga Presbyterian Church, 142
Wales, 33–34, 78
Walker, Ruth, 156
Wallace, Robert, 99–100
Wallace, William, 65
Watt, Robert, 66
WEA (Workers’ Educational Association), 167
What is right, 164
‘Wildflowers’ residence, 169
Wilkins, William, 47
Wilsons Creek, 119
Wilsons Valley Camp, 118–19
Windsor, NSW, 54–55
Witenagemote, 27
women and education see gender
Women’s Club, 135
Workers’ Educational Association, 167
working class see class hierarchy
World War One, 81–82
Wright, John Christie, 140
Wurth, Arthur, 84
Wyndham, Harold, 74, 100, 161, 163, 176
‘Wyoming’ building, 111

York University, 175–76