A real education

We need a revolution in the way we teach, the curriculum, the provision of extracurricular activities and in the funding of schools if we are to provide pupils with..

Sebastian Milbank

MATTHEW ARNOLD WROTE THAT “THE AGED BARBARIAN will, upon this, mumble to us his story how the battle of Waterloo was won in the playing-fields of Eton. Alas! disasters have been prepared in those playing-fields as well as victories; disasters due to inadequate mental training — to want of application, knowledge, intelligence, lucidity.” Arnold was one of the greatest educational and social reformers of the Victorian age, a gifted philosopher, journalist and poet who spent 30 years as an inspector and improver of schools. He understood how the character of the ruling classes, and thus the character of their rule, followed from the strengths and weaknesses of their education. It was Arnold, who against much institutional and cultural resistance, foresaw that a national system of education, supported by the state, would…

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