 | Don Herzog - 2000 - 580 pages
...social critic qualified his enthusiasm about educating workers: It is not, however, proposed . . . that the children of the poor should be educated in...above the rank they are destined to fill in society. . . . Utopian schemes for an extensive diffusion of knowledge would be injurious and absurd. A right... | |
 | Kevin Watkins - 2000 - 420 pages
...the same time reinforcing social control. 'It is not proposed,' wrote a prominent advocate of reform, 'that the children of the poor should be educated...minds above the rank they are destined to fill in society.'"9 Mass education was to be designed primarily to create a supply of not particularly skilled... | |
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It is not, however, proposed by this institution, that the children of the poor should be educated in a manner to elevate their minds above the rank they are destined to fill in society, or that an expense should be incurred beyond the lowest rate ever... 