MATHEW ARNOLD Flashcards
MATHEW ARNOLD 1822 - 1888
WHAT WAS HE KNOWN FOR?
For his POETRY and being an SCHOOL INSPECTOR for 24 years
He wrote essays on education and taught for 7 years at his father school
WHAT DID HE BELIEVE?
Believed culture was something the working class did not have
WHAT WERE THE THREE TRIBES?
THE BARBARIANS
Elite and upper class.
THE PHILISTINES
Middle class
THE POPULACE
Workers, majority of the population
ONLY THE BARBARIANS…
Only the barbarians had ‘culture’ and the best, i.e:
- Literacy
- The arts
- Classical education
BARBARIANS WERE THOSE WITH…
- Those with ‘classical cultural’ education
- located in the great and independent schools to rule
PHILISTINES (MC) WERE TAUGHT…
- Taught a mix of classical and business
- In lower independent schools like grammar schools
- To run the masses
POPULACE WERE BARELY…
- Barely educated, only enough to know their place
- to be run and exploited by philistines.
EDUCATION OF POPULACE WAS TO…
- CIVILISE the populace
- Get them to SERVE
- BE EXPLOITED
EDUCATION OF MIDDLE CLASS WAS TO…
- Teach making money
- Trained to appreciate the culture of the upper classes
- To run the system.
WHAT CAUSED OUR ‘PRESENT DIFFICULTIES’
INDUSTRIALISATION, growth of factory caused poverty and decline in health of populace
