In the XIX century the Arnoldian public school
emphasized the education on religion and the classics, on sportness and
on imperial patriotism. A new secondary school appeared in the years of
Sir Robert Morant, the first secretary of the new Board of Education. With
his commandments an old school that created non- technological minds dissapeared.According
to many
historians, Morant was the responsible of the new liberal education.
This new concept aimed to offer new education patterns in order to bring
more talented and prepared students.
However, in the last decades of Queen Victoria's
reign, the public educatin system prooved to be inadequate for the new
technically demanding industry.The new workers had to learn how to do their
qualified job by the old method of observing the work of the veterans.The
powerful English Empire lacked of well trained workers, whereas other countries
as the United States were doing the great leap to a new technologic era.
References
Barnett, Correlli. The Collapse of British Power. London, 1972.
Sanderson, Michael. Education and Economic Decline in Britain, 1870
TO THE 1990s.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.