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MATTHEW ARNOLD ON THE TEACHING OF SCIENCE
Author(s) -
WALCOTT FRED G.
Publication year - 1957
Publication title -
educational theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1741-5446
pISSN - 0013-2004
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-5446.1957.tb01204.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , sociology , computer science
ARNOLD’S CHIEF CRITICISM OF THE REVISED CODE OF 1862 was inspired by his larger view of what an acceptable popular education should comprehend. Scornfully he complained that to the penny-wise proponents of the Code, “the whole duty of a State in public education is to obtain the greatest possible quantity of reading, writing, and arithmetic for the greatest number. These are, so far as the State is concerned, the education of the people.”l As a humanistic educator, Arnold was distressed by the prospect of such an attenuated offering. His concept of popular education encompassed the practical and the utilitarian as well as the literary studies. Accordingly, he stood among the first men of his century to defend the liberalizing power of the new and popular science. Human aptitudes, he said, incline men to one or the other of two roads to knowledge; few are born with the genius to travel both roads: SCIENTIFIC STUDIES