Professor Lionel Elvin (1905-2005)

"Morals should be based on knowledge and reason, not absolutes and dogma. That is why, in addition to my rejection of supernaturalism in relation to Man's place in the cosmos, ethically I am a humanist."

BHA member and distinguished educationist Professor Lionel Elvin died in June 2005. During his remarkable career he was principal of Ruskin College, Oxford, director of Unesco's department of education, and director of the Institute of Education, London. In the 1960s, he was also on the Robbins committee for higher education which recommended a major expansion in university entrance, from 4 to 10 per cent of the population. He published an autobiography, Encounters with Education, in 1987.

See also

His "final testament" in New Humanist
His obituary in The Independent