2 Quotes & Sayings By Te Hulme

T.E. Hulme was born in 1893 in Cootamundra, New South Wales. He was educated at Sydney University and at Oxford, where he studied philosophy under Gilbert Ryle. He began his working life as a schoolteacher in England and then became a journalist with the Sydney Daily Telegraph, which he left in 1914 to work for the Australian Labor Party Read more

He wrote articles on social and political movements and published his first novel, The Tyranny of School (1916). His next book, The Red and Black (1918), was a study of the Russian Revolution and an indictment of the British ruling class. His third book, Education and The Future (1923), was a scathing attack on the education system but was received with hostility by the teachers' unions because of his socialist views.