Practical parents disliked a purely classical curriculum; sensitive parents were dismayed by ...
Practical parents disliked a purely classical curriculum; sensitive parents were dismayed by the tales of squalor, cruelty, and disorder which were told of almost every state school; and religious parents, warned by Cowper's Tirothzium, hesitated to entrust young boys to institutions which gave only a formal security for piety and morals. Arnold reconciled the serious classes to the state school.
He shared their faith in progress, goodness, and their own vocation, incidentally, he was convinced that, with some modest enlargement on the side of history, the classical curriculum was best fitted to produce the type of mind both he and they desired to see in authority.
But for Arnold's influence, it is not at all improbable that out of the many experiments then being made in proprietary schools some more modern alternative might have struck root and become ascendant.' Arnold led us backwith firm hand to the unchangeable routine of the Renaissance; indeed, he could not have helped it if he had wished.
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To all complaints of the classical curriculum there was one convincing answer: ...
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