Wells and the Educational Impulse

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>While there has long been interest in H. G. Wells’s influence on education, particularly in the popularity of his History of the World, there has been far less focus on education’s influence on him. To understand his educational views, presented first in novels and then later in more polemical works, one needs to explore the roots of his own educational experience, and his early desire to teach. In fact, some would say he never stopped teaching, whether it was through fiction, lectures, or even film. Over time, Wells would increasingly promote more ambitious ideas of school reform. He would come to see such reform as essential to the salvation of humanity.</jats:p>