...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...

...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...